Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:32:14 +0200 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon/*: kfree() correct pointers |
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Hi Jonathan,
> > Already fixed in Greg's i2c tree and -mm for quite some time now... > > So it is. The comment says, however, that "the existing code works > somewhat by accident." In the case of the 9240 driver, however, the > existing code demonstrably does not work - it oopsed on me.
I too did notice that the adm9240 case was worse than the four other ones back then, but when I tried to get it to crash, it never did. This is the reason why I did not push this patch upstream faster. I wonder why it now does oops on you.
I also believe that this patch was somewhat misnamed. It is not related to the new hwmon class, but jut happened to change the same part of these five drivers. With a better name, the patch would most probably have been selected by Greg in the last batch of i2c patches to Linus.
> The patch in Greg's tree looks fine (it's a straightforward fix, after > all);
I wouldn't call it straightforward, but it certainly has been reviewed and tested well enough by now to be considered safe.
> I'd recommend that it be merged before 2.6.13.
Fine with me.
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