Re: [PATCH] bio_uncopy_user mem leak

[Colin Leroy]

Hi,

> This bug was triggered by writing audio CDs (but not on data 
> CDs), as the audio frames are not aligned well (2352 bytes),
> so the user pages don't just get mapped.

This patch has been reported by a few people as fixing the leak problem,
but the produced audio CDs are corrupt.
(I didn't try it myself, already trashed 2 CDs ;-))

see http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3659 for example

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Colin
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