From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:25:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603080129_MC3-1-BA15-47C9@compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603061917330.3573@g5.osdl.org>
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:20:13 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > When someone converted the *buffer* allocation to kzalloc they
> > also removed the the memset for the *packet_cmmand* struct.
> >
> > The
> >
> > memset(&cgc, 0, sizeof(struct packet_command));
> >
> > should be added back I think.
>
> Good eyes. I bet that's it.
Heh. This exact fix was posted to linux-kernel by Lee Schermerhorn
three weeks ago:
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:07:37 -0500
From: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Subject: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 - restore zeroing of packet_command
struct in sr_ioctl.c
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Message-ID: <1140030457.6619.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
--
Chuck
"Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!"
next reply other threads:[~2006-03-08 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-08 6:25 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2006-03-08 8:32 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08 8:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 9:02 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08 9:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 9:23 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08 14:35 ` Lee Schermerhorn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-06 0:17 Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 18:43 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 19:51 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 19:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 20:24 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:30 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-06 20:33 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-06 21:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:55 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 21:57 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-09 15:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-09 15:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-09 15:54 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-09 16:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-09 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 16:41 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 20:36 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:53 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 21:16 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:54 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 22:08 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 22:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 23:01 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 23:24 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-07 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07 0:25 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-07 3:15 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-07 3:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07 18:01 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-07 19:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-07 19:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-03-06 22:44 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 18:48 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-06 18:49 ` Mike Christie
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