[Prism54-devel] Re: Bug 39 - Kernel oops

[Aurelien]

Hi,
please use the most recent CVS, because what you suggest is already in...

...And justice for all

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:41:50 +0100
margitsw@t-online.de (Margit Schubert-While) wrote:

> In oid_mgt.c after :
>          priv->mib = kmalloc(OID_NUM_LAST * sizeof (void *), GFP_KERNEL);
>          if (!priv->mib)
>                  return -ENOMEM;
> 
> I think there should be :
>         memset(priv->mib, 0, OID_NUM_LAST * sizeof(void *));
> 
> Don't assume kmalloc returns zeroed memory.
> If it doesn't and we get a kmalloc bailout in the oid loop, then
> we will bork in mgt_clean.
> 
> Margit
> 
> 
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