Re: [PATCH] megaraid.c

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:16:04 +0100 (BST)

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> This patch fixes an instance where an allocation is checked, but only after
> the pointer is memset() - moving the memset further down in the function
> fixes this.

There are a ton of these in the scsi code in Linus tree, Im still merging them
please grab the -ac patch before you waste time on this - there are about
30 or 40 of these already fixed.

The SCSI one is _much_ more problematic because there are pieces of quite high
level code that blindly assumed a scsi command alloc always works etc..
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