Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mike Christie wrote:
> -       buffer = kmalloc(32, GFP_KERNEL | SR_GFP_DMA(cd));
> +       buffer = kzalloc(32, GFP_KERNEL | SR_GFP_DMA(cd));
>         if (!buffer)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> 
> -       memset(&cgc, 0, sizeof(struct packet_command));
...
> -       buffer = kmalloc(32, GFP_KERNEL | SR_GFP_DMA(cd));
> +       buffer = kzalloc(32, GFP_KERNEL | SR_GFP_DMA(cd));
>         if (!buffer)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> 
> -       memset(&cgc, 0, sizeof(struct packet_command));

> 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.

		Linus
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