Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod' | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:41:01 +1000 |
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:25:11 -0400 (EDT), "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote: >modutils-2.3.15, and probably later, has a bug that can prevent >modules from being loaded from initrd, this results in not >being able to mount a root file-system. The bug assumes that >malloc() will return a valid pointer when given an allocation >size of zero.
Sigh :( Fixed over two years ago.
modutils Changelog. 2001-05-06 modutils 2.4.6
* Do not assume that malloc(0) returns a pointer. Bug report by Kiichiro Naka, different fix by Keith Owens.
void * xmalloc(size_t size) { void *ptr = malloc(size ? size : 1); if (!ptr) { error("Out of memory"); exit(1); } return ptr; }
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