Re: [PATCH] vmalloc NULL Check Bug Fix

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:07:03AM -0700, Philip Wang wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm Philip, from Professor Dawson Engler's Meta-Compilation Group at 
> Stanford University.
> 
> This simple and obvious bug fix makes sure that vmalloc() does not return 
> NULL.  My addition of returning -1 is consistent with how the rest of the 
> code deals with allocation failures.

The error handling paths in ftl.c still look awfully incomplete -- they don't
free any resources previously allocated when a memory allocation failure 
happens.

-Andi