Re: AGP bogosities

Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11T22:45:56Z

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> I'm fascinated that not a single person picked up on this problem
> whilst the agp code sat in -mm. Even if DRI isn't enabled,
> every box out there with AGP that uses the generic routines
> (which is a majority), should have barfed loudly when it hit
> this check during boot. Does no-one read dmesg output any more ?

I don't think it actuially causes a barf, because the counts start at 1,
and they go down to zero due to the double-free, but they don't become
negative until you do that whole detection loop _twice_. I think-

Linus