Re: [PATCH] vmalloc NULL Check Bug Fix

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Sun May 13 2001 - 05:48:05 EST


On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:07:03AM -0700, Philip Wang wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm Philip, from Professor Dawson Engler's Meta-Compilation Group at
> Stanford University.
>
> This simple and obvious bug fix makes sure that vmalloc() does not return
> NULL. My addition of returning -1 is consistent with how the rest of the
> code deals with allocation failures.

The error handling paths in ftl.c still look awfully incomplete -- they don't
free any resources previously allocated when a memory allocation failure
happens.

-Andi

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