[patch 1/2] slqb: fix small zero size alloc bug

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Tue Feb 03 2009 - 08:56:19 EST



Fix a problem where SLQB did not correctly return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for a
zero sized allocation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>

---
include/linux/slqb_def.h | 2 +-
mm/slqb.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slqb_def.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slqb_def.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slqb_def.h
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ static __always_inline struct kmem_cache

index = kmalloc_index(size);
if (unlikely(index == 0))
- return NULL;
+ return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;

if (likely(!(flags & SLQB_DMA)))
return &kmalloc_caches[index];
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