Re: Oops on ibmasm

From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 16:56:42 EST


--- Max Asbock <masbock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...snip...]
> cmd->lock points to a persistent lock that is not
> freed with cmd.

Thanks for the patch Max.

> ibmasm driver:
> Fix the command_put() function which uses a pointer
> for a spinlock that
> can be freed before dereferencing it.

Yup, that patch fixes the oops when slab debug is
enabled.

Assuming there are no unforseen regressions, may I
request for its inclusion in the upcoming 2.6.16?

Hari.



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