Re: call panic if nl_table allocation fails

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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Akinobu Mita wrote:

> This patch makes crash happen if initialization of nl_table fails
> in initcalls. It is better than getting use after free crash later.

>  	nl_table = kcalloc(MAX_LINKS, sizeof(*nl_table), GFP_KERNEL);

Perhaps it'd be better to declare this as an array rather than allocating 
it at runtime.



- James
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