I had an issue on ia64 where I got a bug in kernel/workqueue because
kzalloc returned a NULL pointer due to the task structure getting too big
for the slab allocator. Usually these cases are caught by the kmalloc
macro in include/linux/slab.h.
Compilation will fail if a too big value is passed to kmalloc.
However, kzalloc uses __kmalloc which has no check for that. This patch
makes __kmalloc bug if a too large entity is requested.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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