On Wed, 1 May 2013, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > This behavior has been in there for years. Why try a kmalloc that > > always fails since the size is too big? > > ...because want the extra protection for cases where size is controlled by > userspace. This is consistent with kcalloc() that returns NULL on integer > overflow.
The slab allocator behavior since SLUB was introduced has been to BUG() on allocations that can never be satisfied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
