linux-kernel - [PATCH] slub: slub_def.h: needs additional check for "index"

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Date:	Fri, 6 May 2011 21:28:04 +0300
From:	Maxin John <maxin.john@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] slub: slub_def.h: needs additional check for "index"

In slub_def.h file, the kmalloc_index() may return -1 for some special cases.
If that negative return value gets assigned to "index", it might lead to issues
later as the variable "index" is used as index to array "kmalloc_caches" in :

return kmalloc_caches[index];

Please let me know your comments.

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@...il.com>
---
diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index 45ca123..3db4b33 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static __always_inline struct kmem_cache
*kmalloc_slab(size_t size)
 {
        int index = kmalloc_index(size);

-       if (index == 0)
+       if (index <= 0)
                return NULL;

        return kmalloc_caches[index];
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