Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:45:36 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pte_alloc_kernel needs additional check |
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Paul Larson <plars@linuxtestproject.org> wrote: - return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address); + if (pmd_present(*pmd)) + return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address); + return NULL;
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:33:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Confused. I cannot see a codepath which makes this test necessary?
Looks like it's OOM handling by analogy with pte_alloc_map().
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