slob: Fix to return wrong pointer
authorMinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Mon, 19 May 2008 13:12:08 +0000 (22:12 +0900)
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Mon, 19 May 2008 17:55:25 +0000 (20:55 +0300)
Although slob_alloc return NULL, __kmalloc_node returns NULL + align.
Because align always can be changed, it is very hard for debugging
problem of no page if it don't return NULL.

We have to return NULL in case of no page.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix formatting as suggested by Matt.]
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
mm/slob.c

index 6038cba..a3ad667 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -469,8 +469,9 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
                        return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
 
                m = slob_alloc(size + align, gfp, align, node);
-               if (m)
-                       *m = size;
+               if (!m)
+                       return NULL;
+               *m = size;
                return (void *)m + align;
        } else {
                void *ret;