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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c index ed57a890c64..ab41be625a5 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ struct ErrMsg { }; static DEFINE_MUTEX(aoechr_mutex); + +/* A ring buffer of error messages, to be read through + * "/dev/etherd/err". When no messages are present, + * readers will block waiting for messages to appear. + */ static struct ErrMsg emsgs[NMSG]; static int emsgs_head_idx, emsgs_tail_idx; static struct completion emsgs_comp; @@ -134,13 +139,12 @@ bail: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&emsgs_lock, flags); return; } - mp = kmalloc(n, GFP_ATOMIC); + mp = kmemdup(msg, n, GFP_ATOMIC); if (mp == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: allocation failure, len=%ld\n", n); goto bail; } - memcpy(mp, msg, n); em->msg = mp; em->flags |= EMFL_VALID; em->len = n; @@ -282,7 +286,7 @@ aoechr_init(void) int n, i; n = register_chrdev(AOE_MAJOR, "aoechr", &aoe_fops); - if (n < 0) { + if (n < 0) { printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: can't register char device\n"); return n; } |