Re: 2.2.12: kmalloc: Size (4294959124) too large

Benjamin LaHaise (kernel@kvack.org)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:12:19 -0400 (EDT)

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> > > Something tried to allocate negative bytes.
> >
> > Yep, but what ? Is there a way to let kmalloc print a stack trace
> > when this happens? *(int*)0=0; should cause an oops, right ?
>
> On x86 yes

Isn't that what BUG(); is for? =)

-ben

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