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Message-ID: <20100111142658.GB28783@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:26:58 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@...glemail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
ebiederm@...ssion.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/9] Add rcustring ADT for RCU protected strings v2
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:12:41PM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 03:15, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6.33-rc2-ak/lib/rcustring.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ linux-2.6.33-rc2-ak/lib/rcustring.c
>
> [ . . . ]
>
> > +/*
> > + * Get a local private copy of a RCU protected string.
> > + * Mostly useful to get a string that is stable while sleeping.
> > + * Caller must free returned string.
> > + */
> > +char *access_rcu_string(char **str, int size, gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > + char *copy = kmalloc(size, gfp);
> No check of return value from kmalloc()?
>
> > + if (!str)
> > + return NULL;
The !str should be !copy right. I fixed that in my version.
Thanks for catching.
-Andi
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