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Message-ID: <84144f020706041002t39142548l29cff861461dd7d7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:02:09 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To: "Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeremy@...p.org
Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
On 6/4/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:
> No, because as was mentioned earlier in the thread, we want code to be
> able to handle 0-sized allocations without special cases. The goal is
> that code like
>
> buf = kmalloc(nobj * obj_size);
> if (buf == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> should work fine if nobj happens to be 0. But we do want to get an
> oops if the code actually tries to read or write *buf.
Aah, missed that part of the discussion. Sorry for the noise ;-)
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