Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Thu Sep 20 2012 - 17:19:05 EST


> >An alternative to this, though, might be to never test for *ppos == 0 in
> >u32_array_read() and do the format_array_alloc() in u32_array_open() to
> >initialize file->private_data. If that allocation fails, just return
> >-ENOMEM. Then you never need to add a mutex in the read path.
> >
>
> Tested-by: Raghavendra <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Excellent. Thank you!

>
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