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DateFri, 23 Sep 2005 16:30:33 +1000
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: making kmalloc BUG() might not be a good idea
David S. Miller wrote:

>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.
>
>Thanks.
> 
>

Making it WARN might be a good compromise.


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