Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:38:14 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/4] CONFIG_STABLE to switch off development checks |
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Dave Kleikamp wrote: > I'm on Christoph's side here. I don't think it makes sense for any code > to ask to allocate zero bytes of memory and expect valid memory to be > returned. > > Would a compromise be to return a pointer to some known invalid region? > This way the kmalloc(0) call would appear successful to the caller, but > any access to the memory would result in an exception.
I would think returning 1 as the address would work here, it's not NULL but any access to that page should still oops..
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