linux-kernel - Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc1: known regressions v2

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705161343470.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 13:44:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
cc:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Cherwin R. Nooitmeer" <cherwin@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>, Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>
Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc1: known regressions v2



On Wed, 16 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> 
> > Memory management
> > 
> > Subject    : kernel BUG at include/linux/slub_def.h:88 kmalloc_index()
> > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8476
> > Submitter  : Cherwin R. Nooitmeer <cherwin@...il.com>
> > Status     : Unknown
> 
> 
> This a kmalloc(0) that needs fixing.

Well, "needs fixing" is a bit strong.

It's a scary message for something we've always handled, and that we still 
handle fine, we just complain about it.

So we'll probably just turn the message off for 2.6.22, but in the 
meantime, we leave it on and try to fix as many of these as we can be 
bothered to.

		Linus
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