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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: avoid use of broken kzalloc mempool
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:13:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prbcr46t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249332888-13440-1-git-send-email-sage@newdream.net> (Sage Weil's message of "Mon,  3 Aug 2009 13:54:46 -0700")

Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> writes:

> The kzalloc mempool does not re-zero items that have been used and then
> returned to the pool.  Manually zero the allocated multipath_bh instead.

Why not fix that in mempool instead? That would seem like the right place
to fix such a bug, instead of adding workarounds to all callers.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-03 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-03 20:54 [PATCH] md: avoid use of broken kzalloc mempool Sage Weil
2009-08-03 21:13 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-08-03 21:29   ` Sage Weil
2009-08-03 22:03 ` NeilBrown
2009-08-11 21:52   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-11 22:03     ` Sage Weil
2009-08-12 23:17     ` Neil Brown

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