On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > A better patch should be the appended. Does that work for you too?
>
> Btw, I already committed this as obvious.
>
> I did the same for the SLAB __do_kmalloc() thing. Let's hope that
> that was the extent of the damage.
>
> Linus
Hmmmm.. The issue is really in krealloc which can be called with a NULL
parameter (a special case). However, krealloc should not call ksize
with NULL.
The merged patch above makes ksize(NULL) return 0. So we are
returning zero size for an object that we have not allocated.
Better fail if someone tries that.
The __do_kmalloc issue looks like a hunk that was somehow dropped.
IMHO: The right fix for the ksize issue would be the following patch:
Index: linux-2.6/mm/util.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/util.c 2007-07-23 13:29:42.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/mm/util.c 2007-07-23 13:31:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -88,7 +88,11 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new
return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
}
- ks = ksize(p);
+ if (p)
+ ks = ksize(p);
+ else
+ ks = 0;
+
if (ks >= new_size)
return (void *)p;
-
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