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Subject: Re: reed-solomon lib
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:22:21 +0200
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On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:48 +0200, Simon Sudler wrote:
>          if (nroots < 0 || nroots >= (1<<symsize) || nroots > 8)
>                  return NULL;
....
> After removing of the "nroots > 8" my code was working fine...
> perhaps someone was to carful to avoid a errors with the kmalloc
> function in rs_init.

Honestly, I don't remember why it is there. Definitely not due to the
kmalloc. It can be safely removed. I'll fix this. 

tglx