Commit dbdb9045 authored Sep 23, 2005 by Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 23, 2005

[PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check



As davem points out, this wasn't such a great idea.  There may be some code
which does:

	size = 1024*1024;
	while (kmalloc(size, ...) == 0)
		size /= 2;

which will now explode.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 86513e72

mm/slab.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2907,7 +2907,8 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
		* functions.
		*/
		cachep = __find_general_cachep(size, flags);
		BUG_ON(!cachep); /* Allocation size too large for kmalloc */
		if (unlikely(cachep == NULL))
		return NULL;
		return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);