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authorPatrick McHardy <[email protected]>2011-01-14 14:12:37 +0100
committerPatrick McHardy <[email protected]>2011-01-14 14:12:37 +0100
commit0134e89c7bcc9fde1da962c82a120691e185619f (patch)
tree3e03335cf001019a2687d161e956de4f73379984 /include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
parentc7066f70d9610df0b9406cc635fc09e86136e714 (diff)
parent6faee60a4e82075853a437831768cc9e2e563e4e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/net-next-2.6
Conflicts: net/ipv4/route.c Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
index 5afa5b52063e..beafc156a535 100644
--- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
+++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
@@ -432,6 +432,10 @@ extern void ttm_bo_synccpu_write_release(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo);
* together with the @destroy function,
* enables driver-specific objects derived from a ttm_buffer_object.
* On successful return, the object kref and list_kref are set to 1.
+ * If a failure occurs, the function will call the @destroy function, or
+ * kfree() if @destroy is NULL. Thus, after a failure, dereferencing @bo is
+ * illegal and will likely cause memory corruption.
+ *
* Returns
* -ENOMEM: Out of memory.
* -EINVAL: Invalid placement flags.