Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:30:33 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: making kmalloc BUG() might not be a good idea |
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David S. Miller wrote:
>I'm sort-of concerned about this change: > > [PATCH] __kmalloc: Generate BUG if size requested is too large. > >it opens a can of worms, and stuff that used to generate >-ENOMEM kinds of failures will now BUG() the kernel. > >Unless you're going to audit every user triggerable >path for proper size limiting, I think we should revert >this change. > >Thanks. > >
Making it WARN might be a good compromise.
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