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Message-ID: <469FB583.7070502@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:03:31 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, I think I see it: I think the mm/slab.c conversion of kmalloc(0) is
> totally broken.
>
> The problem? It returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR from __find_general_cachep(), not
> from __kmalloc(). So anythign that uses __find_general_cachep() will get
> an invalid cachep pointer, which was not the point.
>
> Does something like this fix it?
I wondered about that too but I didn't spot any callers that would
actually break. Andi? Roland?
> Christoph, please go over this and see if there are other cases like that.
__do_kmalloc_node probably.
Pekka
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