From 6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:22 -0700 Subject: Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the allocators. Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h. Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB. Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment is requested via __kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/slab.h | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 27402fea9b79..0289ec89300a 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -30,6 +30,19 @@ #define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */ #define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */ +/* + * ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized kmalloc requests. + * + * Dereferencing ZERO_SIZE_PTR will lead to a distinct access fault. + * + * ZERO_SIZE_PTR can be passed to kfree though in the same way that NULL can. + * Both make kfree a no-op. + */ +#define ZERO_SIZE_PTR ((void *)16) + +#define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x) ((unsigned long)(x) < \ + (unsigned long)ZERO_SIZE_PTR) + /* * struct kmem_cache related prototypes */ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b