linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/16] dma-debug: add hash functions for dma_debug

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Message-ID: <20090114175109.GB11842@amd.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:51:09 +0100
From:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] dma-debug: add hash functions for dma_debug_entries

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:39:18AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Have we previously found bugs by other means which this facility would
> have detected?  I don't recall any...
> 

See for example this bugfix:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg83208.html

The bug was found using the first version of this patchset.

Joerg


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