Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 08:21:04 +0100 (BST) | From | arjan@fenrus ... | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] error path memory leaks in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8 |
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In article <200105250238.TAA00788@csl.Stanford.EDU> you wrote: >> I believe we can make that a short. Arjan?
> Is the general way to fix these too-large stack vars to heap allocate > them? Or is it preferable to put a "static" in front of them, if the > routine is non-reentrant?
You're not always allowed to allocate memory. Esp in filesystems it can be tricky as writes can be triggered by low-memory situations and allocating memory their is suboptimal. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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