Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964941AbWLMNFw (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:05:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964953AbWLMNFv (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:05:51 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:2421 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964947AbWLMNFu (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:05:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:05:59 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton , Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.19-mm1: gotemp: memset(..., 0) error Message-ID: <20061213130559.GD3851@stusta.de> References: <20061211005807.f220b81c.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061211005807.f220b81c.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 42 <-- snip --> ... NOT FOR MAINLINE! This is for the driver tutorial I give. It will not be included in the mainline kernel tree ever. Use the ldusb driver that is already there instead for this device. This is only a teaching tool. ... + pkt = kmalloc(sizeof(*pkt), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!pkt) + return -ENOMEM; + memset(pkt, sizeof(*pkt), 0x00); ... <-- snip --> Lesson 1: Write an USB driver. Lesson 2: Correct the memset() argument order or use kzalloc(). cu Adrian ;-) -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/