Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Oops in aio_free_ring on 2.6.9 | From | "Darrick J. Wong" <> | Date | Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:30:12 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 19:43, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I don't disagree with the bug, but I disagree with the fix. > > In my opinion, the problem is that "info->nr_pages" is _wrong_. It's wrong > because it has been initialized to a bogus value. > > I'd much prefer this alternate appended patch. Can you verify that it also > fixes the problem (we can drop the bogus info->nr_pages initialization,
You're right, that is a better fix. The aio code is not my current area of expertise, as I've demonstrated. :)
Your patch also fixes the problem.
Thanks,
--Darrick
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