Am Mittwoch, 30. April 2003 02:44 schrieb Max Krasnyansky:
> At 02:40 PM 4/29/2003, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:34:19PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >> > +int usb_init_urb(struct urb *urb)
> >> > +{
> >> > + if (!urb)
> >> > + return -EINVAL;
> >> > + memset(urb, 0, sizeof(*urb));
> >> > + urb->count = (atomic_t)ATOMIC_INIT(1);
> >> > + spin_lock_init(&urb->lock);
> >> > +
> >> > + return 0;
> >> > +}
> >>
> >> Greg, please don't do it this way. Somebody will
> >> try to free this urb. If the urb is part of a structure
> >> this must not lead to a kfree. Please init it to some
> >> insanely high dummy value in this case.
>
> Uh, I didn't think about that one. This stuff was first implemented
> for 2.4 which didn't have refcount in urb and then forward ported to 2.5.
It should work. However if you have a refcount bug, the failure case will
be spectacular.
Regards
Oliver
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