Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 13 May 2001 12:48:05 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmalloc NULL Check Bug Fix |
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:07:03AM -0700, Philip Wang wrote: > Hello! > > I'm Philip, from Professor Dawson Engler's Meta-Compilation Group at > Stanford University. > > This simple and obvious bug fix makes sure that vmalloc() does not return > NULL. My addition of returning -1 is consistent with how the rest of the > code deals with allocation failures.
The error handling paths in ftl.c still look awfully incomplete -- they don't free any resources previously allocated when a memory allocation failure happens.
-Andi
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