linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

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Message-Id: <1172050562.3531.171.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:36:02 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, clameter@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu,
	unionfs@...esystems.org, bunk@...sta.de, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:33 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> > please mark this one __must_check.. not storing realloc() return values
> > is one of the more nasty types of bugs... but gcc can help us greatly
> > here ;)
> 
> So I guess we want the same thing for the other allocator functions
> (__kmalloc et al) as well?

kmalloc doesn't normally get forgotten. realloc() otoh is a very classic
and far more frequent mistake....

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