Re: [PATCH] 2.5.47: strdup()

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 22:41:05 -0800

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:21:09AM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
+ char *p = kmalloc(strlen(s) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);

I'm very concerned the implicit allocation will be abused and OOM
highmem boxen. Can you at least optionally highmem-allocate the buffers?

Thanks,
Bill
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