Commit eafb4270 authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] __kmalloc: Generate BUG if size requested is too large.

I had an issue on ia64 where I got a bug in kernel/workqueue because
kzalloc returned a NULL pointer due to the task structure getting too big
for the slab allocator.  Usually these cases are caught by the kmalloc
macro in include/linux/slab.h.

Compilation will fail if a too big value is passed to kmalloc.

However, kzalloc uses __kmalloc which has no check for that.  This patch
makes __kmalloc bug if a too large entity is requested.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 0cdc82ee
......@@ -2907,8 +2907,7 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
* functions.
*/
cachep = __find_general_cachep(size, flags);
if (unlikely(cachep == NULL))
return NULL;
BUG_ON(!cachep); /* Allocation size too large for kmalloc */
return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
......
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