Re: [PATCH] Fix to return wrong pointer in slob

From: MinChan Kim
Date: Mon May 19 2008 - 22:32:52 EST


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 22:12 +0900, MinChan Kim wrote:
>> Although slob_alloc return NULL, __kmalloc_node returns NULL + align.
>> Because align always can be changed, it is very hard for debugging
>> problem of no page if it don't return NULL.
>>
>> We have to return NULL in case of no page.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/slob.c | 9 ++++++---
>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
>> index 6038cba..258d76d 100644
>> --- a/mm/slob.c
>> +++ b/mm/slob.c
>> @@ -469,9 +469,12 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
>> return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
>>
>> m = slob_alloc(size + align, gfp, align, node);
>> - if (m)
>> - *m = size;
>> - return (void *)m + align;
>> + if (!m)
>> + return NULL;
>> + else {
>> + *m = size;
>> + return (void *)m + align;
>> + }
>
> This looks good, but I would remove the 'else {' and '}' here. It's nice
> to have the 'normal path' minimally indented.

I agree
Thanks, Matt :)


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Thanks,
MinChan Kim
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