Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed

[Alan Cox]

> When the vmalloc() fails, the new_mm->context.segments is set to NULL and 
> the function returns.
> 
> That seems wrong, no? Shouldn't there be a panic() when the allocation 
> fails at least? Or even better the function should perhaps return an error 
> code?
> 
> Considering there is only one caller (kernel/fork.c::copy_mm()) it would be 
> easy to modify copy_mm() to handle a returned error code gracefully and 

That sounds like an appropriate change.