Hi Christoph,
On 6/4/07, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
/*
- * We should return 0 if size == 0 (which would result in the
- * kmalloc caller to get NULL) but we use the smallest object
- * here for legacy reasons. Just issue a warning so that
- * we can discover locations where we do 0 sized allocations.
+ * The behavior for zero sized allocs changes. We no longer
+ * allocate memory but return ZERO_SIZE_PTR.
+ * WARN so that people can review and fix their code.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0);
I thought the whole point of this patch was to get rid of the WARN_ON
as you will get a nice oops if you dereference the pointer?
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