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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: via sata oops on init
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:10:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060729171044.GE16946@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060729170402.GA20649@leiferikson.dystopia.lan>

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:04:02PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:

 > You jump into loop just to skip it.

You have to. Look at the allocation again. It's in a loop.
The first of which may have succeeded.  Your patch will introduce
a memory leak.

		Dave

 > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
 > index 386e5f2..064ee85 100644
 > --- a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
 > +++ b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
 > @@ -5420,7 +5420,7 @@ int ata_device_add(const struct ata_prob
 >  
 >  		ap = ata_host_add(ent, host_set, i);
 >  		if (!ap)
 > -			goto err_out;
 > +			goto err_free_ret;
 >  
 >  		host_set->ports[i] = ap;
 >  		xfer_mode_mask =(ap->udma_mask << ATA_SHIFT_UDMA) |



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-29 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-28 23:39 via sata oops on init Dave Jones
2006-07-29 14:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2006-07-29 16:41   ` Dave Jones
2006-07-29 17:04     ` Johannes Weiner
2006-07-29 17:10       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-07-29 19:30         ` Johannes Weiner

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