Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:34:51 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND] NUMA x86: add constraints check for nid parameters |
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:45:07 +0100 Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch adds constraints checks into __node_distance() and > numa_set_distance() functions. If from or to parameters are > lower than zero, it results into oops now.
Passing negative numbers into __node_distance() sounds like a bug in the caller, and this patch will remove our means of detecting that bug.
Perhaps we need to be told more about this patch. Is the bug user-triggerable? If so, how? How was this fault triggered? Etcetera.
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