Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:37:06 +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 08:11:49AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > You don't honestly expect people to correctly code to such a standard, > do you? People will assume that ksize never fails, they will be wrong, > and computers will die.
If we follow this argument then most of our interfaces would be broken.
> > 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. > > Umm, no. There were very few users to being with, so it was actually a > fairly large proportion. And that suggested the interface was a bad > idea.
Huh? I'm talking about users of the kernel. A very small proportion of those use SLOB.
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