Re: [linux-next-20130422] Bug in SLAB?

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 1 May 2013, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> > This behavior has been in there for years. Why try a kmalloc that
> > always fails since the size is too big?
>
> ...because want the extra protection for cases where size is controlled by
> userspace. This is consistent with kcalloc() that returns NULL on integer
> overflow.

The slab allocator behavior since SLUB was introduced has been to BUG() on
allocations that can never be satisfied.

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