From eafb42707b21beb42bba4eae7b742f837ee9d2e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:44:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [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: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index c9adfce004..ad113c431e 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -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); -- 2.39.5