This trivial patch adds a kmalloc check to ide-tape.c::
idetape_onstream_read_back_buffer as per the Stanford team's report
way back. It applies against 244ac16.
Reading the code I was not sure if it was OK to just return
or more should be done. Please sanity check this.
--- linux-244-ac11-clean/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c Sat May 19 21:06:35 2001
+++ linux-244-ac11/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c Sun May 20 14:58:44 2001
@@ -3472,6 +3472,11 @@
printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: %s: reading back %d frames from the drive's internal buffer\n", tape->name, frames);
for (i = 0; i < frames; i++) {
stage = __idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape, 0, 0);
+ if(!stage) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "(idetape:) Failed to allocate memory for buffer\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
if (!first)
first = stage;
aux = stage->aux;
--
Regards,
Rasmus(rasmus@jaquet.dk)
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