Re: dpt_i2o.c memleak/incorrectness

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:28, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    There is something strange going on in drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c in both
>    2.4 and 2.5. adpt_i2o_reset_hba() function allocates 4 bytes 
>    for "status" stuff, then tries to reset controller, then 
>    if timeout on first reset stage is reached, frees "status" and returns,
>    otherwise it proceeds to monitor "status" (which is modified by hardware
>    now, btw), and if timeout is reached, just exits.

Correctly - I2O does the same thing in this case. Its just better to
throw a few bytes away than risk corruption