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Simon Kirby reported that on his RAID setup with idedisk underneath
the box OOMs after a couple of days of runtime. Running with
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK pointed to idedisk_prep_fn() which unconditionally
allocates an ide_cmd struct. However, ide_requeue_and_plug() can be
called more than once per request, either from the request issue or the
IRQ handler path and do blk_peek_request() ends up in idedisk_prep_fn()
repeatedly, allocating a struct ide_cmd everytime and "forgetting" the
previous pointer.

Make sure the code reuses the old allocated chunk.
Reported-and-tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [ 39.x, 3.0.x ]
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131667641517919
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110922072643.GA27232@hostway.ca

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>