Re: [Patch] Fix oops in alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() when page isNULL

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> The generic and IA-64 versions of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() don't
> check the return value from alloc_page_vma(). This can lead to an oops
> if we're OOM. This fixes my oops on PPC64, but I haven't got an IA-64
> machine/compiler handy.

Patch looks okay to me. These are the only occurences as far as I can tell
after reviewing the alloc_zeroed_user_higpage implementations in
include/asm-*/page.h.


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