Merge branch 'for-grant' of git://git.jdl.com/software/linux-3.0 into devicetree/next

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
index 274798068a54..16f69be820c7 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
@@ -435,7 +435,12 @@ static int idedisk_prep_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
         if (!(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH))
                 return BLKPREP_OK;
 
-        cmd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+        if (rq->special) {
+                cmd = rq->special;
+                memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(*cmd));
+        } else {
+                cmd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+        }
 
         /* FIXME: map struct ide_taskfile on rq->cmd[] */
         BUG_ON(cmd == NULL);