Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:00:01 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | (fix - thanks to Manfred) Re: 2.3.41: kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large. |
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Hi,
Manfred spotted it - it was nfds = 0 that would cause overflow. Dumb I was checking the entire range +/-2G and forgetting about the middle :)
Here is the fix (return 0 like other Unices do if nfds = 0).
Regards, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
--- select.c.0 Mon Jan 31 08:48:52 2000 +++ select.c Mon Jan 31 08:51:06 2000 @@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ poll_table *wait_table = NULL, *wait = NULL; int nchunks, nleft; + if (nfds == 0) + return 0; + /* Do a sanity check on nfds ... */ if (nfds > current->files->max_fds) return -EINVAL;
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