linux-kernel - Re: [S+Q2 06/19] slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007141515560.17291@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:16:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [S+Q2 06/19] slub: Check kasprintf results in
 kmem_cache_init()

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Small allocations may fail during slab bringup which is fatal. Add a BUG_ON()
> so that we fail immediately rather than failing later during sysfs
> processing.
> 
> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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