linux-kernel - Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707190856550.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:57:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386



On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> qemu testing and booting test machines with i386 kernels wasn't very successfull
> with recent git kernels. I got either BUGs because of failing sysfs initialization
> or oopses in kmalloc, but no user land.

Can you send in the oopses and BUGs? The bug is almost certainly not the 
commit you point to, but some bad kernel code that that commit just shows.

		Linus
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