From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: praveens@stanford.edu (Praveen Srinivasan),
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dhinds@zen.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bulkmem.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:59:20 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010524115920.D3068@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
Em Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:26:20PM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > kernel code. This patch fixes numerous unchecked pointers in the PCMCIA
> > bulkmem driver.
>
> Since when has two been numerous - also I dont thin the fix is right - you need
> to undo what has already been done
and anyway, 2.4.4-ac15 already has the checks, it just doesnt deallocates
what's have already been inserted in the list in setup_regions, the memory
doesn't seem to get lost, but I think its better deallocate whats been
done if it fails halfway in setup_regions.
- Arnaldo
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2001-05-24 14:59 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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2001-05-25 6:12 ` [PATCH] bulkmem.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4 Praveen Srinivasan
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2001-05-24 7:24 Praveen Srinivasan
2001-05-24 14:26 ` Alan Cox
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