Re: [PATCH]: Brown paper bag in fs/file.c?

From: David S. Miller (davem_at_davemloft.net)
Date: 09/14/05

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    From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:48:21 -0700 (PDT)

    > From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:31:33 -0700 (PDT)
    >
    > > I'm about to reboot to see if this fixes the sparc64 problem, with my
    > > luck it probably won't :-)
    >
    > It doesn't, but I think the patch is correct regardless.

    Studying fs/file.c a bit more, there seems to be several of these
    "size vs nr" errors in the allocation and freeing code.

    What's going on here?
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