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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Seokmann.Ju@lsil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] megaraid gcc 4.1 warning fix
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:39:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147257558.17886.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605100256.k4A2u3lB031731@dwalker1.mvista.com>

On Maw, 2006-05-09 at 19:56 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> Fixes the following warning,
> 
> drivers/scsi/megaraid.c: In function ‘issue_scb’:
> drivers/scsi/megaraid.c:1153: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘writel’ makes pointer from integer without a cast

And adds an exploitable memory leak. Please don't fix "bugs" blindly but
check that the error path still releases all the relevant resources.

In this case its probably sufficient just to set rval and fal through,
but each one needs to be reviewed properly.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-10 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10  2:56 [PATCH -mm] megaraid gcc 4.1 warning fix Daniel Walker
2006-05-10  6:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-05-10 10:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-10 14:13   ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 14:21   ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:08     ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:03       ` Daniel Walker

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