Re: [PATCH] Re: [2.5.39] (3/5) CPUfreq i386 drivers
Dominik Brodowski (linux@brodo.de)
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:10:18 +0200
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:16:03AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > If I fix the init by moving the !low || !high test below the loop, and prevent
> > bad data from being passed into the notifier chains, I start getting memory
> > corruption being detected by slab poisioning.
> Any idea why this is happening??? The only dynamically allocated struct is
> struct cpfureq_driver driver; and it is only kfree'd in speedstep_exit...
I think I found the problem: it should be GFP_ATOMIC and not GFP_KERNEL in
the allocation of struct cpufreq_driver. Will be fixed in the next release.
Dominik
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