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Re: proposal for bus_dma(9) change



On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:41:50AM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When bus_dmamap_create() fails, then the map pointer
> is undefined. This is IMO a problem, because the
> dma free routines in many drivers assume the map
> pointer is NULL when invalid.
> This let the drivers call bus_dmamap_destroy()
> on an invalid map pointer.
> Currently, I fixed two drivers: nfe(4) and age(4).
> 
> I see two ways to fix this: We go through all
> drivers and set the map pointer explicitely
> to NULL in the error path of bus_dmamap_create()

"We" go through all the drivers and fix that and the metric ton of other
ways in which they break if anything goes wrong during attach.

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