On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:53:37PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> >You probably want this patch as well, at least the first hunk.
> >It fixes a potential memory leak that could cause lock-ups when using
> >hdparm or smartctl/smartd.
> >
> >John
> >---
> >Fix a few problems seen with the passthru branch:
> >
> >- leaked scsi_request on buffer allocate failure
> >- passthru sense routines were refering to tf->command
> > which is not read in tf_read, instead use drv_stat for
> > status register.
> >- passthru sense passed back to user on ata_task_ioctl
> >
> >Patch is against the current libata-dev passthru branch.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jeff Raubitschek <[email protected]>
> ...
>
> When I tried that patch recently, smartctl stopped working.
> Reverted. Works again.
>
> ??
Interesting...well, take the first hunk and ignore the rest...
Hey, I didn' write it... :-)
John
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