Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761534AbXFDTPn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:15:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761622AbXFDTOn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:14:43 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:35971 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761948AbXFDTOm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:14:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:14:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Pekka Enberg cc: Linus Torvalds , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) In-Reply-To: <84144f020706041213x1d241794u98e9b3ca29865033@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <84144f020706041213x1d241794u98e9b3ca29865033@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 13 On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: > I thought the whole point of this patch was to get rid of the WARN_ON > as you will get a nice oops if you dereference the pointer? That is another patchset. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=DEVELKERNEL&q=b - 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/