On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:20:46PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote:
> 
> Anyway, here's the patch again this time against 2.6.3-rc1.
> 
> 
> The line that IMHO triggers the bug is this:
> 
> "writecount += usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length;"
> 
> It uses "usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length" before initializing it, 
> assuming that it will be zero on the first run. If it is not zero, but 
> instead random *negative* garbage from memory, the loop will start printing 
> endless data from user-space data.
> 
> I hope this time everything works OK :)

Worked fine this time, thanks.  Applied.

greg k-h


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