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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: avoid use of broken kzalloc mempool
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:13:46 +0200
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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

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