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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ft1000: fix skb, netdev, memory leaks
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:53:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100930195307.GA30952@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100930192303.GA10342@albatros>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:23:03PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 04:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:49:35PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > > ft1000_copy_up_pkt() doesn't free skb on errors.
> > > init_ft1000_card() doesn't free netdev with free_netdev() but with kfree().
> > > init_ft1000_card() doesn't check request_region()'s return value
> > > and doesn't free region on error.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  Compile tested.
> > 
> > No you didn't
> 
> No I did:
> 
> make -C /home/vasya/linux drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-pcmcia/ft1000_hw.o
> make: Вход в каталог `/home/vasya/dev/linux-next'
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CC      drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-pcmcia/ft1000_hw.o
> drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-pcmcia/ft1000_hw.c: In function ‘ft1000_reset_card’:
> drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-pcmcia/ft1000_hw.c:525: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘card_download’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-pcmcia/ft1000_hw.c:56: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const u8 * const’
> make: Выход из каталога `/home/vasya/dev/linux-next'

Heh, I didn't think to try that, amazed that it worked at all.

> However, 
> 
>     cd ../drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-pcmcia/
>     LANG=C make -C ~/linux ft1000_hw.o
>     make: Entering directory `/home/vasya/dev/linux-next'
>     make: *** No rule to make target `ft1000_hw.o'.  Stop.
>     make: Leaving directory `/home/vasya/dev/linux-next'
> 
> 
> Is "make" from linux root buggy/not supported for staging/everything?

This driver is marked broken, look at the Kconfig file:
	config FT1000_PCMCIA
	        tristate "Driver for ft1000 pcmcia device."
	        depends on PCMCIA && BROKEN


It will be fixed up soon hopefully.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28 17:49 [PATCH] staging: ft1000: fix skb, netdev, memory leaks Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-09-30 11:13 ` Greg KH
2010-09-30 19:23   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-09-30 19:53     ` Greg KH [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-26  8:59 Vasiliy Kulikov

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