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The case of the prematurely freed SKB

The case of the prematurely freed SKB

Posted Mar 6, 2017 12:41 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: The case of the prematurely freed SKB by oshepherd
Parent article: The case of the prematurely freed SKB

You did not state *why* you think get/put is that bad. What would someone unfamiliar with the kernel conventions think these functions do?

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The case of the prematurely freed SKB

Posted Mar 6, 2017 23:13 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

One could think of it as getting or putting a count into the counter rather than getting a reference and the returning it. I had the same problem for the longest time with the power symbol. I saw it as 0 for a closed circuit and 1 for an open circuit. Exactly backwards.


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