Re: OOPS in Kmalloc

[Randy.Dunlap]

| ; Hello,
| ; i am getting OOPS in Kmalloc .
| ;
| ; void **data;
| ; qset = 1000;
| ;
| ; dptr->data = kmalloc(qset * sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL);
| ;
| ; what could the possible the cause of the error
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| As I am so fond of saying, it's almost always correct to indicate what
| kernel version one if referring to in a problem report.
| 
| Please decode the oops output and post it here.

I can't reproduce this problem on Linux 2.5.68.
However, I did initialize dptr before using it.  Did you?

You see, I can't tell if you did or not because you didn't post
a complete sample to reproduce the problem.

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~Randy