Re: [Patch v2] mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to____cache_alloc_node

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Aaron Tomlin wrote:

> mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node
>     
> If the nodeid is > num_online_nodes() this can cause an
> Oops and a panic(). The purpose of this patch is to assert
> if this condition is true to aid debugging efforts rather
> than some random NULL pointer dereference or page fault.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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