Re: [PATCH] [1/9] Add rcustring ADT for RCU protected strings v2

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:12:41PM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 03:15, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6.33-rc2-ak/lib/rcustring.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ linux-2.6.33-rc2-ak/lib/rcustring.c
> 
> [ . . . ]
> 
> > +/*
> > + * Get a local private copy of a RCU protected string.
> > + * Mostly useful to get a string that is stable while sleeping.
> > + * Caller must free returned string.
> > + */
> > +char *access_rcu_string(char **str, int size, gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > +       char *copy = kmalloc(size, gfp);
> No check of return value from kmalloc()?
> 
> > +       if (!str)
> > +               return NULL;

The !str should be !copy right. I fixed that in my version.
Thanks for catching.

-Andi
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