Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751725AbWCHGaz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:30:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751648AbWCHGaz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:30:55 -0500 Received: from liaag1af.mx.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.32]:25571 "EHLO liaag1af.mx.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751440AbWCHGaz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:30:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:25:47 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Lee Schermerhorn , Mike Christie , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , James Bottomley Message-ID: <200603080129_MC3-1-BA15-47C9@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:20:13 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > When someone converted the *buffer* allocation to kzalloc they > > also removed the the memset for the *packet_cmmand* struct. > > > > The > > > > memset(&cgc, 0, sizeof(struct packet_command)); > > > > should be added back I think. > > Good eyes. I bet that's it. Heh. This exact fix was posted to linux-kernel by Lee Schermerhorn three weeks ago: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:07:37 -0500 From: Lee Schermerhorn Subject: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 - restore zeroing of packet_command struct in sr_ioctl.c To: linux-kernel Cc: Andrew Morton Message-ID: <1140030457.6619.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> -- Chuck "Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!" - 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/