Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: dpt_i2o.c memleak/incorrectness | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | 13 Mar 2003 19:44:23 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:28, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > There is something strange going on in drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c in both > 2.4 and 2.5. adpt_i2o_reset_hba() function allocates 4 bytes > for "status" stuff, then tries to reset controller, then > if timeout on first reset stage is reached, frees "status" and returns, > otherwise it proceeds to monitor "status" (which is modified by hardware > now, btw), and if timeout is reached, just exits.
Correctly - I2O does the same thing in this case. Its just better to throw a few bytes away than risk corruption
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