Re: [PATCH for 2.6.22] [1/10] i386: bug in i386 MTRRinitialization

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> From: Andrea Righi <righiandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> BUG: at include/linux/slub_def.h:77 kmalloc_index()

This was never a bug, and should have been named a warning. It's also gone 
in the current source-tree, since we instead of warning now just return 
ZERO_SIZE_PTR, and if somebody then dereferences that zero-sized 
allocation, then that is the *real* bug.

So I'm sure the patch description is misleading, but I'm not sure whether 
the patch itself is wrong per se. But I'm dropping it for now.

		Linus
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