Re: [PATCH] module: do not print allocation-fail warning on bogus user buffer size

[Rusty Russell]

"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> init_module(2) passes user-specified buffer length directly to
> vmalloc(). It makes warn_alloc_failed() to print out a lot of info into
> dmesg if user specified insane size, like -1.
>
> Let's silence the warning. It doesn't add much value to -ENOMEM return
> code. Without the patch the syscall is prohibitive noisy for testing
> with trinity.

Heh, we used to have an explicit length check because vmalloc would
BUG().  So I guess this is progress...

Applied thanks,
Rusty.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/