Re: [PATCH 2/2] Forgotten memset

From: Panagiotis Issaris
Date: Thu Jul 20 2006 - 13:19:30 EST


Hi,

On wo, 2006-07-19 at 01:49 +0000, Daniel K. wrote:
> Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c
> > @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static int idescsi_check_condition(ide_d
> >
> > /* stuff a sense request in front of our current request */
> > pc = kzalloc (sizeof (idescsi_pc_t), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > - rq = kmalloc (sizeof (struct request), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + rq = kzalloc (sizeof (struct request), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > buf = kzalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > if (pc == NULL || rq == NULL || buf == NULL) {
> > kfree(buf);
> >
> > Was this forgotten and therefore, is it necessary or useful to zero this
> > out?
>
> No, this code snippet is followed by a call to
>
> ide_init_drive_cmd(rq)
>
> which calls memset()
Ouch. I should have seen that. Thanks!

With friendly regards,
Takis


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