Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:14:34 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | making kmalloc BUG() might not be a good idea | | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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I'm sort-of concerned about this change:
[PATCH] __kmalloc: Generate BUG if size requested is too large.
it opens a can of worms, and stuff that used to generate -ENOMEM kinds of failures will now BUG() the kernel.
Unless you're going to audit every user triggerable path for proper size limiting, I think we should revert this change.
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