linux-kernel - Re: [linux-next-20130422] Bug in SLAB?

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Date:	Thu, 2 May 2013 15:13:54 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	glommer@...allels.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-next-20130422] Bug in SLAB?

On Wed, 1 May 2013, Pekka Enberg wrote:

	> Why is that? Historically it has returned NULL, hasn't it? We have had cases
> where kernel code (naively) uses size directly from userspace and we
> definitely don't want to BUG_ON on it.

In that case the size is dynamic and then we return an error. In this case
the size is static and known at compile time. The allocation can never
succeed.
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