Firewire Disk Broken in 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel (was working fine with 2.4.18-ben0)

[Bill Fink]

Hi Michel,

Nice shot!  It works again with the ieee1394-473 tarball (or the distributed
2.4.19-pre8 ieee1394 code) and the change you suggested.  Thanks a ton!!!

						-Bill



On Tue, 14 May 2002, Michel Lanners wrote:

> Shot in the dark....
>
> On  14 May, this message from Bill Fink echoed through cyberspace:
> > diff -u ieee1394-022602/hosts.c ieee1394-022702/hosts.c
> > --- ieee1394-022602/hosts.c	Sat Feb  9 00:41:40 2002
> > +++ ieee1394-022702/hosts.c	Tue Feb 26 15:06:39 2002
> > @@ -78,26 +97,39 @@
> >          spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hosts_lock, flags);
> >  }
> >
> > +/**
> > + * hpsb_alloc_host - allocate a new host controller.
> > + * @drv: the driver that will manage the host controller
> > + * @extra: number of extra bytes to allocate for the driver
> > + *
> > + * Allocate a &hpsb_host and initialize the general subsystem specific
> > + * fields.  If the driver needs to store per host data, as drivers
> > + * usually do, the amount of memory required can be specified by the
> > + * @extra parameter.  Once allocated, the driver should initialize the
> > + * driver specific parts, enable the controller and make it available
> > + * to the general subsystem using hpsb_add_host().
> > + *
> > + * The &hpsb_host is allocated with an single initial reference
> > + * belonging to the driver.  Once the driver is done with the struct,
> > + * for example, when the driver is unloaded, it should release this
> > + * reference using hpsb_unref_host().
> > + *
> > + * Return Value: a pointer to the &hpsb_host if succesful, %NULL if
> > + * no memory was available.
> > + */
> > +
> >  struct hpsb_host *hpsb_alloc_host(struct hpsb_host_driver *drv, size_t extra)
> >  {
> >          struct hpsb_host *h;
> >
> > -        h = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hpsb_host), SLAB_KERNEL);
> > +        h = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hpsb_host) + extra, SLAB_KERNEL);
> >          if (!h) return NULL;
> >          memset(h, 0, sizeof(struct hpsb_host));
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This should probably be sizeof(struct hpsb_host) + extra.
>
> >
> > -	/* Drivers usually use this to allocate their private data */
> > -	if (extra) {
> > -		h->hostdata = kmalloc(extra, SLAB_KERNEL);
> > -		if (!h->hostdata) {
> > -			kfree(h);
> > -			return NULL;
> > -		}
> > -		memset(h->hostdata, 0, extra);
> > -	}
> > -
> > +	h->hostdata = h + 1;
> >          h->driver = drv;
> >          h->ops = drv->ops;
> > +	h->refcount = 1;
> >
> >          INIT_LIST_HEAD(&h->pending_packets);
> >          spin_lock_init(&h->pending_pkt_lock);

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