Re: [2.6 patch] fix mm/util.c:krealloc()
From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Oct 19 2007 - 13:43:10 EST
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Commit ef8b4520bd9f8294ffce9abd6158085bde5dc902 added one NULL check for
> "p" in krealloc(), but that doesn't seem to be enough since there
> doesn't seem to be any guarantee that memcpy(ret, NULL, 0) works
> (spotted by the Coverity checker).
>
> For making it clearer what happens this patch also removes the
> pointless min().
Acked-by: Chriustoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
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