On Wed, 13 May 2015, 慕冬亮 wrote:

Use-after-free is a important vulnerability ! As far as we know , Linux kernel is mostly using C and there may exist this vulnerability! I think in the kernel there are much allocator and reallocator , how do the kernel manage these things?mudongliang

Most of the time "struct kobject" is used to count references to that object. Also, there are functions _get() and _put() that increase/decrease reference count. So if the reference count ever becomes equal to 0 we know that we can free() it and no one references it anymore. More reading on this in LDD3: https://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch14.pdf Su pagarba / Regards, Giedrius