Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.2-pre3 compile error in 6pack.c | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:30:30 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Would it be costly/reasonable to have kmalloc -not- panic if given a > > too-large size? Principle of Least Surprises says it should return NULL > > at the very least. > > It's on purpose; to find the erroneous drivers.
Unfortunately Linus forgot to provide a way to check if a kmalloc is too large so the drivers cannot work around it. Dave put an incredibly ugly constant assumption in af_unix for this and no doubt more will follow.
So -ac added the constant
Alan
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