Re: [PATCH 06/43] qla2xxx: Fix stale mem access for IRQ name

Bart Van Assche
2017-12-20T16:39:40Z

On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 22:56 -0800, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
> From: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@cavium.com>
>
> IRQ name pointer for INTx/MSI was pointing at stale stack frame.
> cat /proc/interrupts will trigger stale mem access. Fix it by
> creating dedicated space for IRQ name.

What stale stack frame are you referring to? Just like in the first patch
of this series, I don't see any stack accesses being removed by this patch.
Is this patch useful? If not, can this patch be left out?

Thanks,

Bart.