Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:37:06 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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       ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] nf_iterate(), BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
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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.

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