Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 23:00:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8 |
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Dawson Engler wrote:
> > check_nmi_watchdog() is __init and we know exactly when it's called. > > The interesting cases (SMP kernel, since for UP NR_CPUS==1) are: > > Ah, nice --- I keep meaning to tell the checker to demote its warning > about NULL bugs or large stack vars in __init routines and/or routines > that have the substring "init" in them ;-)
Please, don't. These functions are often used from/as init_module(), so they must handle the case when allocation fails. They can be called long after the boot.
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