From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PATCH: dpt_i2o memory leak comments
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:15:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030401131504.5d25020b.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304012105.h31L5vG11354@hera.kernel.org>
| @@ -1318,7 +1318,9 @@
| while(*status == 0){
| if(time_after(jiffies,timeout)){
| printk(KERN_WARNING"%s: IOP Reset Timeout\n",pHba->name);
| - kfree(status);
| + /* We loose 4 bytes of "status" here, but we cannot
| + free these because controller may awake and corrupt
| + those bytes at any time */
s/loose/lose/
| @@ -1336,6 +1338,9 @@
| }
| if(time_after(jiffies,timeout)){
| printk(KERN_ERR "%s:Timeout waiting for IOP Reset.\n",pHba->name);
| + /* We loose 4 bytes of "status" here, but we cannot
| + free these because controller may awake and corrupt
| + those bytes at any time */
s/loose/lose/
or is this a Brit vs. Amer difference? (not that I know of)
--
~Randy
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200304012105.h31L5vG11354@hera.kernel.org>
2003-04-01 13:15 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-04-01 21:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-01 21:26 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-01 23:12 ` jw schultz
2003-04-02 11:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-02 10:11 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 11:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 14:01 scott
2003-06-11 19:48 scott
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