From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@gmail.com>
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, taesoo@gatech.edu,
changwoo@gatech.edu, sanidhya@gatech.edu, blee@gatech.edu,
csong84@gatech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: better error handling of kstrdup()
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:25:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150403042516.GA9988@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426886514-23522-1-git-send-email-tsgatesv@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 05:21:54PM -0400, Taesoo Kim wrote:
> Upon memory pressure, kstrdup() might fail and correctly
> handle memory error, although current implementation do not
> refer orig_data.
>
> NOTE. fortunately the correct impl works, other than a
> corner case where kstrdup() fails and kzalloc() succeeds;
> it might record 'NULL' in the log.
>
> Signed-off-by: Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-03 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-20 21:21 [PATCH 1/1] ext4: better error handling of kstrdup() Taesoo Kim
2015-04-03 4:25 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-04-03 5:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-04-03 17:44 ` Taesoo Kim
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