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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: better error handling of kstrdup()
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:25:16 -0400
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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