From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove check_region in drivers-char-specialix.c
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:10:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050929011026.GO7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050928222822.GA14949@gollum.tnic>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:28:22AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Andrew told me already today that Jeff[1] had sent a patch fixing all that. To
> prevent the leaks he's calling sx_release_io_range(bp) in every check before
> exiting sx_probe so this seems correct. A small question though: After calling
> sx_request_io_range() in the if-statement on line 499 is it ok to call
> sx_request_io_range() for a second time in a row on line 587? I think in
> this case the second call has to go, no?
>
> [1]rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
Huh? I don't see any specialix patches in that repository right now...
But yes, after successful request_region() you shouldn't call it again -
that would simply fail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-29 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 8:37 [PATCH] remove check_region in drivers-char-specialix.c Borislav Petkov
2005-09-28 17:52 ` Al Viro
2005-09-28 22:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2005-09-29 1:10 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-09-29 1:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-29 2:05 ` Al Viro
2005-09-29 6:43 ` Rogier Wolff
2005-09-29 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
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