From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:21:49 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> 
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Roger Oksanen wrote:
>> e100: Fix broken cbs accounting due to missing memset.
>> 
>> Alan Stern noticed that e100 caused slab corruption.
>> commit 98468efddb101f8a29af974101c17ba513b07be1 changed
>> the allocation of cbs to use dma pools that don't return zeroed memory,
>> especially the cb->status field used to track which cb to clean, causing
>> (the visible) double freeing of skbs and a wrong free cbs count.
>> 
>> Now the cbs are explicitly zeroed at allocation time.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
>> Tested-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Roger Oksanen <[email protected]>
> 
> Change looks reasonable, ACK.

Applied, thanks everyone.  I'll try to requeue the e100 stuff
together into -stable again now that this is resolved.

> should we also consider a followon patch to zero memory allocated with 
> pci_pools?  Seems useful.

Nah, it's more fun debugging subtle bugs like this one.
:-)

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