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DateMon, 26 Apr 2004 15:14:07 -0700
FromGreg KH <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/9] USB usbfs: take a reference to the usb device
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 04:05:17PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c	Mon Apr 26 13:48:28 2004
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c	Mon Apr 26 13:48:28 2004
> @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@
>  	 * all pending I/O requests; 2.6 does that.
>  	 */
> 
> -	if (ifnum < 8*sizeof(ps->ifclaimed))
> -		clear_bit(ifnum, &ps->ifclaimed);
> +	BUG_ON(ifnum >= 8*sizeof(ps->ifclaimed));

I've changed that to a WARN_ON().  Yeah, writing over memory is bad, but
oopsing is worse.  Let's be a bit nicer than that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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