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From: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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Subject: Re: dpt_i2o.c fix for possibly memory corruption on reset timeout
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On Fri, 14 March 2003 11:18:49 +0200, 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...

I've had the same idea, but there might be some pitfalls around.
The problem boils down to the users of the buffer. Is it per-device,
per-process, per-whatever?

Once this is known I'm all for putting the buffer into a per-whatever
data structure. But someone has to understand the driver first. :)

J?rn

-- 
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
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