From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:08:08 -0400 (EDT) > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > Hi > > > > When you compile kernel on Sparc64 with heap memory checking and type > > "cat /proc/iomem", you get a crash, because pointers in struct resource > > are uninitialized. > > > > Most code fills struct resource with zeros, so I assume that it is > > responsibility of the caller of request_resource to initialized it, not > > the responsibility of request_resource functuion. > > > > After 2.6.29 is out, there could be a check for uninitialized fields added > > to request_resource to avoid crashes like this. > > > > Mikulas > > I forgot to add: > > Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied and queued up for -stable, thanks a lot. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
