Re: [PATCH] remove check_region in drivers-char-specialix.c

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 20:42:26 EST


Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:28:22AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Andrew told me already today that Jeff[1] had sent a patch fixing all that. To
> > prevent the leaks he's calling sx_release_io_range(bp) in every check before
> > exiting sx_probe so this seems correct. A small question though: After calling
> > sx_request_io_range() in the if-statement on line 499 is it ok to call
> > sx_request_io_range() for a second time in a row on line 587? I think in
> > this case the second call has to go, no?
> >
> > [1]rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
>
> Huh? I don't see any specialix patches in that repository right now...

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