Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760749Ab3D3Olj (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:41:39 -0400 Received: from a9-70.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([54.240.9.70]:55367 "EHLO a9-70.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760050Ab3D3Olh (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:41:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 415 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:41:37 EDT Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:34:41 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Tetsuo Handa cc: glommer@parallels.com, penberg@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-next-20130422] Bug in SLAB? In-Reply-To: <201304300645.FCE37285.tVHJLSOMQFOFFO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Message-ID: <0000013e5b5de8c2-75b84016-0faf-4b7f-b5e5-e40eb67552ab-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <517E8758.9040803@parallels.com> <0000013e564e0e5a-121c52f9-e489-470f-99d5-67a5ad42eb75-000000@email.amazonses.com> <201304300028.IAD13051.OHOVMJSLFFFQOt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <0000013e56e9304a-1042a95a-d4dd-43c5-8b8a-c670f50ac54e-000000@email.amazonses.com> <201304300645.FCE37285.tVHJLSOMQFOFFO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 2013.04.30-54.240.9.70 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 26 On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Current diff is: [off by one stuff okay] > diff --git a/include/linux/slab_def.h b/include/linux/slab_def.h > index 113ec08..be1446a 100644 > --- a/include/linux/slab_def.h > +++ b/include/linux/slab_def.h > @@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) > if (!size) > return ZERO_SIZE_PTR; > > + if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) > + goto not_found; > + > i = kmalloc_index(size); Why is this needed? kmalloc_index should BUG() for too large allocs. -- 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/