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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Yang Bai <hamo.by@gmail.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: warning if total alloc size overflow
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:03:36 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1202140902400.20013@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329204499-2671-1-git-send-email-hamo.by@gmail.com>

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Yang Bai wrote:

> Before, if the total alloc size is overflow,
> we just return NULL like alloc fail. But they
> are two different type problems. The former looks
> more like a programming problem. So add a warning
> here.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Would be better to remove kcalloc and provide a generalized array size
calculation function that does the WARN(). That would also work for all
other variants zeroed or NUMA node spec etc etc.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-14 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14  7:28 Yang Bai
2012-02-14  7:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-14  7:51   ` Yang Bai
2012-02-14  8:10     ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-14 15:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14  8:53 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-14  9:43   ` Yang Bai
2012-02-14 15:07   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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