Re: [RFC] fix slub krealloc()

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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:47:13 -0700
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:


> > Right. We need to fix util.c. ksize should not be called with a NULL
> > parameter.
> > 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;
> >  
> 
> I think we already fixed this?
> 
> commit 1d4ec7b1d6f130818f9b62dea3411d9ee2ff6ff6
> Author: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
> Date:   Fri Jul 20 12:13:20 2007 -0700
> 
>     Fix ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(ZERO_SIZE_PTR)

There is no use of ZERO_OR_NULL ptr in krealloc. Linus added a check to
ksize() instead so that ksize(NULL) returns 0 instead of failing.


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