From: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:49:42 +0100
> Hello David,
>
> > One could argue from a defensive programming perspective that
> > this bug comes from the fact that the ifb_init_one() loop
> > advances state before checking for errors ('i' is advanced before
> > the 'err' check due to the loop construct), and that's why the
> > error recovery code had to be coded specially :-)
>
> Now when I look at it I might be wrong and it is not a bug at all.
> It's just coded in weird way. Anyway isn't there kfree(ifbs) missing
> on error path?
>
> The patch below should clear things a bit (against plain 2.6.20-rc2-mm1).
>
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ok, I've removed the original patch from my tree.
I'll let this cleanup sit for a while so others can review
it :-)
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