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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#list.linux-kernel@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.47: strdup()
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 22:41:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021116064105.GF23425@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d6p63ui2.fsf@goat.bogus.local>

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:21:09AM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
+	char *p = kmalloc(strlen(s) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);

I'm very concerned the implicit allocation will be abused and OOM
highmem boxen. Can you at least optionally highmem-allocate the buffers?


Thanks,
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-16  6:21 [PATCH] 2.5.47: strdup() Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-16  6:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-16  6:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-16 15:42   ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-17 23:32     ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-18  2:43       ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-16  6:41 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-11-17  0:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-11-17  1:37   ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-17  4:40     ` Chris Wedgwood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-16  8:48 Peter Kjellerstedt
2002-11-16 15:53 ` Olaf Dietsche

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