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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Brown paper bag in fs/file.c?
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:48:21 -0700 (PDT)

> From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:31:33 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > I'm about to reboot to see if this fixes the sparc64 problem, with my
> > luck it probably won't :-)
> 
> It doesn't, but I think the patch is correct regardless.

Studying fs/file.c a bit more, there seems to be several of these
"size vs nr" errors in the allocation and freeing code.

What's going on here?