Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 02/13] scsi: don't turn on REQ_SPECIAL on sgtable allocation failure.

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:08 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 	Don't turn on REQ_SPECIAL on sgtable allocation failure.  This
> 	was the last place where REQ_SPECIAL is turned on for normal
> 	requests.

If you do this, you'll leak a command every time the sgtable allocation
fails.

James


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