On 02/28/2012 01:44 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:33:59PM +0400, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
  - Fix vmap() to return ZERO_SIZE_PTR if 0 pages are requested;
  - fix __vmalloc_node_range() to return ZERO_SIZE_PTR if 0 bytes
    are requested;
  - fix __vunmap() to check passed pointer with ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR.


Why?

1) it was requested by the subsystem (co?)maintainer, see 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/27/475;
2) this looks to be a convenient way to trace/debug zero-size allocation errors 
(although
   I don't advocate it as a best way).

Dmitry

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