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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:56:41 +0200 From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [QUESTION] check for mem in slab > in file mm/slab.c and routine kmem_cache_init() I found there > 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 <-- [...] > is that OK? or it's a bug? It's ok. If that allocation fails your machine won't come up anyway. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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