From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/9] Possible AMD8111e free irq issue
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:00:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4238E4AC.8090104@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1aicj$iq1$2@sea.gmane.org>
Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Chris Wright wrote:
>
>>
>> From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
>>
>> It seems to me that if in the amd8111e_open() fuction dev->irq isn't
>> zero and the irq request succeeds it might not get released anymore.
>>
>
> Based on the wording above, I can't help wondering if this fixes a
> problem that anyone is actually seeing.
Maybe the wording is wrong, but the patch fixes an obvious
leak-on-error. Allocations in amd8111e_init_ring() could certainly fail.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-17 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-16 23:53 [0/9] -stable review Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:54 ` [1/9] [ALSA] Fix stereo mutes on Surround volume control Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:54 ` [2/9] Possible AMD8111e free irq issue Chris Wright
2005-03-17 0:19 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-17 1:03 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-17 1:13 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-17 2:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-03-16 23:54 ` [3/9] [IPSEC]: Fix __xfrm_find_acq_byseq() Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:54 ` [4/9] NetROM locking Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:55 ` [5/9] [TUN] Fix check for underflow Chris Wright
2005-03-17 0:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-17 0:23 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:55 ` [6/9] tasklist left locked Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:55 ` [7/9] Timercode race in AX.25 Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:55 ` [8/9] Possible VIA-Rhine free irq issue Chris Wright
2005-03-16 23:55 ` [9/9] Fix kernel panic on receive with WAN Hitachi SCA HD6457x Chris Wright
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