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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/char/serial.c unchecked ioremap() calls
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>
> Em Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:53:59AM +0300, Andrey Panin escreveu:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 16x50 serial driver doesn't check ioremap() return value.
> > Atached patch should fix this it.
>
> humm, have not checked, but it seems as if you don't release the previous
> successful mappings on failure. Wipe out this message if I was too quick to
> answer and this is not true. 8)

Also, the proper return from a failed ioremap is -ENOMEM, so I think
Andrey's serial.c patch should modify some functions to return a failure
code...

Jeff



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