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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: amit2030@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:47:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070103.184720.122834327.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061230182603.d3815dcb.amit2030@gmail.com>

From: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:26:03 -0800

> Description: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0 in function aligned_kmalloc(), in file drivers/atm/firestream.c. Also, a negative value for alignment does not make sense. Check for negative value too.
> The function prototype is:
> 		static void __devinit *aligned_kmalloc (int size, gfp_t flags, int alignment).
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>

There is only one call to aligned_kmalloc() and it passes in
0x10 as the alignment argument.  Therefore all of this checking
is completely pointless.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-04  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-31  2:26 [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0 Amit Choudhary
2006-12-31  5:59 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2007-01-04  7:29   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-04  2:47 ` David Miller [this message]

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