Re: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1488! (2.6.13.2)

[Andrew Morton]

Davi Arnaut <davi.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How about really fixing kmem_cache_* to use the proper return conventions ?
>  In this case it should have returned ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);

A NULL return on failure is fine - what would we do with the additional
info anyway?  Not anything which justifies updating the >200 callsites, I
suspect.
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