Re: slab corruption of hpsb_packet from ohci1394 + sbp2 on 2.6.0-test7

From: Ben Collins
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 08:38:08 EST


> > Any clues on how to track this problem down would be greatly appreciated!
> > (Please CC: such replies, as i'm reading via WWW rather than subscribing.)
>
> The state change synchronization is rather weird in that driver, then
> there is the whole double semaphore acquisition business which i'm not
> quite sure of. It looks better suited to a struct completion, but that is
> the source of your problem. This would be better handled by the
> maintainer.

FYI, the semaphore is being removed and things are better handled now.

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