From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:24:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc3~51^2~8
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[PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check

As davem points out, this wasn't such a great idea.  There may be some code
which does:

	size = 1024*1024;
	while (kmalloc(size, ...) == 0)
		size /= 2;

which will now explode.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index ad113c431e..c9adfce004 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2907,7 +2907,8 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
 	 * functions.
 	 */
 	cachep = __find_general_cachep(size, flags);
-	BUG_ON(!cachep);		/* Allocation size too large for kmalloc */
+	if (unlikely(cachep == NULL))
+		return NULL;
 	return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);