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From: Heiko Carstens
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Re: [QUESTION] check for mem in slab
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 11:56 pm
> in file mm/slab.c and routine kmem_cache_init() I found there
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> is no checking for allocated memory on line: > > /* 4) Replace the bootstrap head arrays */ > { > struct array_cache *ptr; > > ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct arraycache_init), GFP_KERNEL); > > --> no check for ptr == NULL <--
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> is that OK? or it's a bug?
It's ok. If that allocation fails your machine won't come up anyway. -
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[QUESTION] check for mem in slab
, Cyrill Gorcunov
, (Thu Mar 29, 9:04 am)
Re: [QUESTION] check for mem in slab
, Heiko Carstens
, (Thu Mar 29, 11:56 pm)
Re: [QUESTION] check for mem in slab
, Pekka Enberg
, (Fri Mar 30, 4:55 am)
Re: [QUESTION] check for mem in slab
, Cyrill Gorcunov
, (Fri Mar 30, 9:41 am)
[PATCH] Catch kmalloc failure in kmem_cache_init() (was: [ ...
, Johannes Weiner
, (Mon Apr 2, 2:50 am)
[PATCH] Catch kmalloc() failure in kmem_cache_init()
, Johannes Weiner
, (Mon Apr 2, 3:18 am)
Re: [PATCH] Catch kmalloc() failure in kmem_cache_init()
, Pekka J Enberg
, (Mon Apr 2, 3:23 am)
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