Re: Question on IS_ERR

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jidong xiao wrote:
> I saw we call IS_ERR(ptr) after executing kthread_run() each time.
> But we don't need to call IS_ERR(ptr) after kmalloc().
> 
> My understanding is,
> the kernel pointer ptr for IS_ERR to check should be page aligned, so
> its kernel address should be less than 0xfffff000(or 0xffff ffff ffff
> f000, 64bits),
> 
> kthread_run returns a struct task_struct pointer,which is always page aligned,
> however the pointer returned by kmalloc() might not be page aligned,
> so we cannot use IS_ERR to check.
> 
> Is my understanding correct?
> 

No.  There is no requirement that the pointer is page-aligned.  The last
page of the address space is (in the Linux kernel) invalid by
definition, so there are in effect three kinds of pointers in the Linux
kernel: valid pointers, NULL, and ERR_PTR()s.

	-hpa
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