Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

Dawson Engler
2001-05-25T03:07:21Z

> > Ah, nice --- I keep meaning to tell the checker to demote its warning
> > about NULL bugs or large stack vars in __init routines and/or routines
> > that have the substring "init" in them ;-)
>
> Please, don't. These functions are often used from/as init_module(),
> so they must handle the case when allocation fails. They can be
> called long after the boot.

I meant "demote" to mean "reducing the ranking of these errors during
sorting" rather than "eliminate from the error logs".