linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE overflow during cpumask allocation

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Message-ID: <20141208200257.GD4182@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 14:02:57 -0600
From:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	George Beshers <gbeshers@....com>, Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE overflow during cpumask allocation

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This patch fails to build with certain configs:
> 
> kernel/sched/core.c:7130:33: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘cpumask_var_t’ from type ‘void *’

Thanks for letting us know, Ingo.  I believe George has something in
mind to fix this.  We'll take a look and get another version out ASAP!

- Alex
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