Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757466Ab3D2PqP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:46:15 -0400 Received: from a194-210.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.194.210]:36428 "EHLO a194-210.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756826Ab3D2PqO (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:46:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:46:12 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Glauber Costa cc: Pekka Enberg , Tetsuo Handa , LKML Subject: Re: [linux-next-20130422] Bug in SLAB? In-Reply-To: <517E8EE1.6090306@parallels.com> Message-ID: <0000013e5679080c-d205d4fa-a545-439d-a976-f234f48e1bcc-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <201304242108.FDC35910.VJMHFFFSOLOOQt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <201304252120.GII21814.FMJFtHLOOVQFOS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <201304291140.IFJ95894.OFLSFFHQOOMVJt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <517E8758.9040803@parallels.com> <0000013e564e0e5a-121c52f9-e489-470f-99d5-67a5ad42eb75-000000@email.amazonses.com> <517E8EE1.6090306@parallels.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.194.210 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 17 On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 04/29/2013 06:59 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > The code in kmalloc_index() creates a BUG() and preferentially should > > create a compile time failure when a number that is too big is passed to it. > > > > What is MAX_ORDER on the architecture? > > Returning NULL is fine, but kmalloc_index currently does not check for > MAX_ORDER at all. Could easily add that and BUG() on it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/