Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:38:26 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) |
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Pekka Enberg wrote: > Then we might as well return your regular NULL pointer for zero-length > allocations as you can't do anything sane with ZERO_SIZE_PTR either.
Round and round. You can't distinguish NULL from allocation failure, which kmalloc(0) decidedly *isn't*.
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