On Thursday May 24, praveens@stanford.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> This patch fixes some unchecked ptr bugs in the multiple devices driver
> (RAID) code (md.c).
>
> Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin
Thankyou.
However I suspect that a much simpler patch would be:
--- ../linux/./drivers/md/md.c Fri Apr 6 10:42:55 2001
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c Mon May 7 22:08:02 2001
@@ -3756,6 +3756,10 @@
continue;
}
mddev = alloc_mddev(MKDEV(MD_MAJOR,minor));
+ if (mddev == NULL) {
+ printk("md: kmalloc failed - cannot start array %d\n", minor);
+ continue;
+ }
if (md_setup_args.pers[minor]) {
/* non-persistent */
mdu_array_info_t ainfo;
WARNING - patch created by hand, not tested.
If this is an issue. i.e. if alloc_mddev fails this early in the boot
sequence, then I think you have a very sick computer...
NeilBrown
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