[ale] Linux Does it Again!

[Geoffrey]

Danny Cox wrote:

> 	Well, I've done a little kernel hacking, and I can spot iffy code
> sometimes.  This was iffy code.  Upon initialization, it would be
> kmalloc()-ing various members of it's structure, but upon failure, it
> simply bailed.  It never kfree()-ed what it had grabbed!  Memory leaks
> for sure!  I continued googling around, and stumbled across an entry for
> a patch or two to the driver.  The patches were done by Greg KH, Mister
> USB himself!  Hmm!  I'm running Fedora Core 3, so I looked
> in /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/drivers/usb/misc, and found,
> would you believe it? "legousbtower.ko"!

Comes with SuSE 9.2 as well. :)

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Until later, Geoffrey