linux-kernel - Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706041213540.24935@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:14:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> I thought the whole point of this patch was to get rid of the WARN_ON
> as you will get a nice oops if you dereference the pointer?

That is another patchset. See 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=DEVELKERNEL&q=b
 
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