linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] fix mm/util.c:krealloc()

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710191040060.30937@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fix mm/util.c:krealloc()

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Commit ef8b4520bd9f8294ffce9abd6158085bde5dc902 added one NULL check for 
> "p" in krealloc(), but that doesn't seem to be enough since there 
> doesn't seem to be any guarantee that memcpy(ret, NULL, 0) works 
> (spotted by the Coverity checker).
> 
> For making it clearer what happens this patch also removes the
> pointless min().

Acked-by: Chriustoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
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