Re: dpt_i2o.c fix for possibly memory corruption on reset timeout

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
14 Mar 2003 14:19:58 +0000

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:18, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I don't like the whole idea that mem leak is tolerable.
>
> Can we just add a 4 byte scratch pad status to
> struct _adpt_hba? Let it scribble there...

Its 4 bytes (+ slab overhead), its far safer if this happens to say
its gone forever. Its owned by the I2O controller now and it never
gave it back

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