Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:54:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [BUG]memblock: fix overflow of array index | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Just an educational question: is it possible > to set one-byte per memblock? And what is the minimum memblock > size?
yes. 1 byte.
> > Even if 2G memblock is a huge number, it still seemed like a bug to me > that there is no check on the maximum number (which is 2G) of this > variable (assuming signed int). Software can always purposely push > that number up and the system can panic?
before slab is ready? how?
Thanks
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