Re: Kernel bugs found using inspect tool

From: Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 06:09:45 EST


>>>>> "Ed" == Rupp, Ed J <ed.rupp@compaq.com> writes:

Ed> I ran the 2.3.38 distribution through a program from the AT&T
Ed> toolchest called 'inspect'. I found 10 near-certain bugs which
Ed> may or may not be causing any observable problems and 13 probable
Ed> bugs which I couldn't immediately tell if they were just odd
Ed> coding style or real errors. Most of the bugs are in the drivers
Ed> area which I guess is no suprise since these drivers are less
Ed> heavily travelled than the rest of the kernel. I hope this is the
Ed> right list to send this to.

Ed> drivers/net/acenic.c: extra semicolon
Ed> near line 1090 if (!(ap->trace_buf = kmalloc(ACE_TRACE_SIZE,
Ed> GFP_KERNEL)));

Neato

The code in question would never be run by any ordinary user since it
was surrounded by a #if 0/#endif pair, but I'll fix it in the next
release anyway.

Jes

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