Re: [PATCH] RAID5 NULL Checking Bug Fix

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> Hi,
> In drivers/md/raid5.c, the author does not check to see if alloc_page() returns
> NULL. This patch also adds checks that return 1 (following the
> error-path convention in the respective function).

This is fixed in 2.4.4-ac and has been for a while (and a little more
cleanly in some respects). However it needs someone who knows the raid code
well to push the raid fixes on to Linus

Alan

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