Explanation:

The bufp pointer should be indexed rather than incremented because it is used
a few lines above as a base pointer to free successfully allocated items if
kmalloc fails.

-------- Begin Patch --------

--- fs/iobuf.c.orig     Wed Mar 21 10:12:36 2001
+++ fs/iobuf.c  Wed Mar 21 10:12:30 2001
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
                        return -ENOMEM;
                }
                kiobuf_init(iobuf);
-               *bufp++ = iobuf;
+               bufp[i] = iobuf;
        }
 
        return 0;

-------- End Patch --------

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