Re: small 5575 PCI ATM fix

Dave Jones
2002-06-18T13:58:37Z

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:35:27PM +0200, Petter wrote:
>
> I was grepping through some code, and noticed that the return value
> of a kmalloc in iphase.c was not checked.
> A patch was sendt to the author, but this was the reply I got:
>
> "Peter Wang is no longer a member of the Interphase team. Interphase
> does support the 5575 PCI ATM adapter with Linux, but for driver enhancements
> and fixes, we require a current software warranty contract. If you
> could send me the serial number and / or the MAC address of your adapter, I
> can verify your warranty status and have the latest driver sent to you."

rofl. 8-)

> I do not care about their driver since I do not have an ATM card, but
> the current driver should anyhow be fixed.

Error handling in that driver seems to be 'creative' at best.
No releasing of already allocated resources, just returning -EAGAIN
everywhere, and no checking for already allocated resources.

Someone with too much time on their hands[1] could probably clean this
up to free allocated resources on failure and return -ENOMEM on
allocation failures.

Dave

[1] or a 'software warranty contract'.

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