Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:01:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:00:59 -0500 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:8914 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:00:59 -0500 Subject: Re: dpt_i2o.c fix for possibly memory corruption on reset timeout From: Alan Cox To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua Cc: Oleg Drokin , "Randy.Dunlap" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , deanna_bonds@adaptec.com In-Reply-To: <200303140921.h2E9Lqu08107@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> References: <20030313182819.GA2213@linuxhacker.ru> <20030313105125.1548d67c.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030313185628.GA2485@linuxhacker.ru> <200303140921.h2E9Lqu08107@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1047651597.27700.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 14 Mar 2003 14:19:58 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 15 On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:18, 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... Its 4 bytes (+ slab overhead), its far safer if this happens to say its gone forever. Its owned by the I2O controller now and it never gave it back - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/