At 18:46 27/11/01, Martin Donnelly wrote:
>I noticed strange behaviour recently with a driver i'm developing and
>tried to replicate it in a simple module to determine if it was my
>driver or a kernel bug. Basically i allocate 120k with kmalloc then
>initialising this memory i get the following oops. (I've tried this on
>several machines with the same results)
>
>Any ideas what is wrong?
>[snip of oopsen]
>The code being use to generate this is:
>
>int init_module(void)
>{
> addr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, mem_size);
> if(addr != NULL)
> {
> u8 *byte;
> u32 ix;
>
> byte = addr;
> for(ix = 0; ix < mempage_size; ix++)
Is mem_size >= mempage_size?
Anton
> {
> *byte = 0;
> byte++;
> }
> }
> return 0;
>}
>
>
>
>
>--
>Martin Donnelly Senior Software Engineer
> RAMiX Europe Ltd
>99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code,
>fix one bug, compile it again...
>101 little bugs in the code....
>
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