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From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: John Mock <kd6pag@qsl.net>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: slab corruption of hpsb_packet from ohci1394 + sbp2 on 2.6.0-test7
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:31:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031011133114.GW552@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0310102125580.15705@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>

> > Any clues on how to track this problem down would be greatly appreciated!
> > (Please CC: such replies, as i'm reading via WWW rather than subscribing.)
> 
> The state change synchronization is rather weird in that driver, then 
> there is the whole double semaphore acquisition business which i'm not 
> quite sure of. It looks better suited to a struct completion, but that is 
> the source of your problem. This would be better handled by the 
> maintainer.

FYI, the semaphore is being removed and things are better handled now.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-11 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-10 23:41 slab corruption of hpsb_packet from ohci1394 + sbp2 on 2.6.0-test7 John Mock
2003-10-11  1:55 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-10-11 13:31   ` Ben Collins [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-14 15:23 John Mock

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