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From: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio_uncopy_user mem leak
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:16:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040819091655.1f1b06e3@pirandello> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040817155918.GA5312@tpkurt.garloff.de

Hi,

> This bug was triggered by writing audio CDs (but not on data 
> CDs), as the audio frames are not aligned well (2352 bytes),
> so the user pages don't just get mapped.

This patch has been reported by a few people as fixing the leak problem,
but the produced audio CDs are corrupt.
(I didn't try it myself, already trashed 2 CDs ;-))

see http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3659 for example

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Colin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-19  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-17 15:59 [PATCH] bio_uncopy_user mem leak Kurt Garloff
2004-08-17 21:08 ` Gene Heskett
2004-08-17 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-19  7:16 ` Colin Leroy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-19  9:59 Greg Afinogenov
2004-08-19 11:07 ` Con Kolivas
2004-08-19 13:51   ` Chris Mason
2004-08-19 19:55     ` Kurt Garloff
2004-08-20  3:19       ` Con Kolivas
2004-08-20  6:31         ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-20 12:54           ` Kurt Garloff
2004-08-20 20:28           ` sandr8
2004-08-20  7:15         ` Greg Afinogenov
2004-08-20 12:46         ` Kurt Garloff

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