Re: Unchecked kmalloc return in fs/isofs/namei.c

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:55:46 +0100 (BST)


> Also, its 'priority' is GFP_KERNEL, which indicates it may block to get
> memory. (Is that correct?) Which begs the question... How likely is a
> GFP_KERNEL kmalloc to fail?

Not very, but it will eventually fail

Alan

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