Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2018 11:31:03 -0700 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: semantics of rhashtable and sysvipc |
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On Wed, 23 May 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>So I'm perfectly fine with getting rid of 'tables_initialized'. But no, not >with a BUG_ON(). > >If you cannot guarantee that the allocation works (using __GFP_NOFAIL is >ok, for example - but it only works with small allocations), then you need >to handle the allocation failure.
Note that even if the allocation was guaranteed, there are still param validations and rhashtable_init() can return -EINVAL.
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