Re: [PATCH] crash with /proc/iomem on sparc64

[David Miller]

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:08:08 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > When you compile kernel on Sparc64 with heap memory checking and type
> > "cat /proc/iomem", you get a crash, because pointers in struct resource 
> > are uninitialized.
> > 
> > Most code fills struct resource with zeros, so I assume that it is 
> > responsibility of the caller of request_resource to initialized it, not 
> > the responsibility of request_resource functuion.
> > 
> > After 2.6.29 is out, there could be a check for uninitialized fields added 
> > to request_resource to avoid crashes like this.
> > 
> > Mikulas
> 
> I forgot to add:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied and queued up for -stable, thanks a lot.
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