linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [REVISED] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:42:31 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, amit2030@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REVISED] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:36:46PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> wrote:
> >So, maybe it's less evil to check those NULLs where possible and add
> >some WARN_ONs here and there...
> 
> No, it's much better to oops rather than paper over a bug.
> 

I'm not sure I can understand your intentions - do you mean
always better? In my opinion oops is right only to avoid
some danger. And here is no danger - some routing info,
which is internal multipath_xxx data and can be handled
safely, will not go into its cache.

Jarek P.
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