Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:38:59 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> When the vmalloc() fails, the new_mm->context.segments is set to NULL and > the function returns. > > That seems wrong, no? Shouldn't there be a panic() when the allocation > fails at least? Or even better the function should perhaps return an error > code? > > Considering there is only one caller (kernel/fork.c::copy_mm()) it would be > easy to modify copy_mm() to handle a returned error code gracefully and
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