[ale] Linux Does it Again!
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Jan 21 08:51:46 EST 2005
Danny Cox wrote:
> Well, I've done a little kernel hacking, and I can spot iffy code
> sometimes. This was iffy code. Upon initialization, it would be
> kmalloc()-ing various members of it's structure, but upon failure, it
> simply bailed. It never kfree()-ed what it had grabbed! Memory leaks
> for sure! I continued googling around, and stumbled across an entry for
> a patch or two to the driver. The patches were done by Greg KH, Mister
> USB himself! Hmm! I'm running Fedora Core 3, so I looked
> in /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/drivers/usb/misc, and found,
> would you believe it? "legousbtower.ko"!
Comes with SuSE 9.2 as well. :)
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Until later, Geoffrey
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