Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:50:04 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [regression] nf_iterate(), BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference |
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:40:40PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Using ksize() for skbs will crash your kernel for some configurations > because calling that function for memory allocated with > kmem_cache_alloc() is not supported by all the allocators (well, > SLOB).
So how about fixing the interface so that it can return an error to indicate that the allocator doesn't support it? You're taking away an entire interface just because an underlying implementation that's used by a very small proportion of users doesn't do the right thing.
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