linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip/master] x86: io-apic - restore_IO_APIC

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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:00:09 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip/master] x86: io-apic - restore_IO_APIC_setup NULL
	pointer quick fix

[Ingo Molnar - Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:05:20AM +0200]
| 
| * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
| 
| > Check if memory was granted first - we don't like NULL deref.
| > It's a *quick* fix. Actually it's better to hadle this error
| > at moment of memory allocation. It's save_mask_IO_APIC_setup
| > route who allocates this memory (just for the record).
| > 
| > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
| > ---
| > 
| > I'll handle this in _normal_ way tomorrow. Please review.
| 
| ok, i've applied the quick fix to tip/master - the patch will drop from 
| there on the next integration run.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

thanks Ingo, it seems there memory leak too. Handling...

		- Cyrill -
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