Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:18:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777 warning |
| |
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Paul Jackson wrote:
> What do you mean, Christoph, by "then any dereferences will fail" ? > That sounds bad to me -- we don't want pointer dereferences failing > in the kernel, do we? Wouldn't you have to add some more lines of > code, a bit further down, where pidarray is used, to avoid trying to > use it if its NULL?
The allocated array has 0 bytes. Any dereference is an error. - 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/
| |