Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755079AbYGXOiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:38:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750953AbYGXOiA (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:38:00 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:35028 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbYGXOh7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:37:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:37:06 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Matt Mackall Cc: Pekka Enberg , Patrick McHardy , Ingo Molnar , David Miller , w@1wt.eu, davidn@davidnewall.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, rjw@sisk.pl, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, Dave Jones , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [regression] nf_iterate(), BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Message-ID: <20080724143706.GA8461@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20080724.022259.113079007.davem@davemloft.net> <20080724093411.GA12001@elte.hu> <20080724115625.GA23994@elte.hu> <20080724115957.GA25701@elte.hu> <48886FA6.6050908@trash.net> <20080724122203.GA7187@gondor.apana.org.au> <84144f020807240540vbe7ef50uee2cacabe8016546@mail.gmail.com> <20080724125004.GA7426@gondor.apana.org.au> <1216905109.15519.200.camel@calx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1216905109.15519.200.camel@calx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 32 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:11:49AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > You don't honestly expect people to correctly code to such a standard, > do you? People will assume that ksize never fails, they will be wrong, > and computers will die. If we follow this argument then most of our interfaces would be broken. > > You're taking > > away an entire interface just because an underlying implementation > > that's used by a very small proportion of users doesn't do the > > right thing. > > Umm, no. There were very few users to being with, so it was actually a > fairly large proportion. And that suggested the interface was a bad > idea. Huh? I'm talking about users of the kernel. A very small proportion of those use SLOB. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/