Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

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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 <[email protected]>
 Subject: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 - restore zeroing of packet_command
        struct  in sr_ioctl.c
 To: linux-kernel <[email protected]>
 Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
 Message-ID: <[email protected]>


-- 
Chuck
"Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!"

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