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Christoph Lameter authored
I had an issue on ia64 where I got a bug in kernel/workqueue because kzalloc returned a NULL pointer due to the task structure getting too big for the slab allocator. Usually these cases are caught by the kmalloc macro in include/linux/slab.h. Compilation will fail if a too big value is passed to kmalloc. However, kzalloc uses __kmalloc which has no check for that. This patch makes __kmalloc bug if a too large entity is requested. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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