The kzalloc mempool does not re-zero items that have been used and then returned to the pool. Manually zero the allocated multipath_bh instead. CC: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/multipath.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/multipath.c b/drivers/md/multipath.c index 237fe3f..151ce69 100644 --- a/drivers/md/multipath.c +++ b/drivers/md/multipath.c @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ static int multipath_make_request (struct request_queue *q, struct bio * bio) } mp_bh = mempool_alloc(conf->pool, GFP_NOIO); + memset(mp_bh, 0, sizeof(*mp_bh)); mp_bh->master_bio = bio; mp_bh->mddev = mddev; @@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ static int multipath_run (mddev_t *mddev) } mddev->degraded = conf->raid_disks - conf->working_disks; - conf->pool = mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(NR_RESERVED_BUFS, + conf->pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(NR_RESERVED_BUFS, sizeof(struct multipath_bh)); if (conf->pool == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html