Re: [PATCH 4/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:34:29 -0500

> 
>> I want whatever you replace it with to be equivalent for
>> object tracking purposes.
> 
> In nearly all of the cases I fixed, the socket inode is already
> provided, which serves as a perfectly good unique identifier.  Would you
> prefer I include that information twice?

The problem is that the socket inode is not available in a certain
subclass of cases, so the transformation is not equivalent.

Why not attack this at the heart of where your concern is, and hack
the %p format handling to do whatever it is you like instead of
patching code all over the tree?
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