From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697706B004D for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:36:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:35:59 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: Add kmalloc NULL tests Message-ID: <20090730183558.GA11763@logfs.org> References: <20090730153658.GA22986@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090730153658.GA22986@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Julia Lawall , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 30 July 2009 17:36:58 +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:10:22PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c > > index 7b5d4de..972e427 100644 > > --- a/mm/slab.c > > +++ b/mm/slab.c > > @@ -1502,6 +1502,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) > > > > ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct arraycache_init), GFP_NOWAIT); > > > > + BUG_ON(!ptr); > > BUG_ON(cpu_cache_get(&cache_cache) != &initarray_cache.cache); > > memcpy(ptr, cpu_cache_get(&cache_cache), > > sizeof(struct arraycache_init)); > > This does not change the end result when the allocation fails: you get > a stacktrace and a kernel panic. Leaving it as is saves a line of > code. According to http://lwn.net/Articles/342420/, there may be a subtle difference. JA?rn -- "Error protection by error detection and correction." -- from a university class -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org