Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

["Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Christoph,

On 6/4/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> 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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