Re: [PATCH] md: avoid use of broken kzalloc mempool

[Andi Kleen]

Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The kzalloc mempool does not re-zero items that have been used and then
> returned to the pool.  Manually zero the allocated multipath_bh instead.

Why not fix that in mempool instead? That would seem like the right place
to fix such a bug, instead of adding workarounds to all callers.

-Andi

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