Re: [PATCH -mm] megaraid gcc 4.1 warning fix

[Daniel Walker]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-05-09 at 19:56 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Fixes the following warning,
> > 
> > drivers/scsi/megaraid.c: In function âissue_scbâ:
> > drivers/scsi/megaraid.c:1153: warning: passing argument 2 of âwritelâ makes pointer from integer without a cast
> 
> And adds an exploitable memory leak. Please don't fix "bugs" blindly but
> check that the error path still releases all the relevant resources.

I did nothing blindly .. I have a queue of 50+ more of these. I
researched every error path , and made sure the warning wasn't an actual
problem. If it was a problem , or I wasn't sure if the fix was 100% I
sent it to LKML ..

Daniel



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