From: Dawson Engler <engler@csl.Stanford.EDU>
To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:07:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105250307.UAA00899@csl.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105242257280.24864-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> from "Alexander Viro" at May 24, 2001 11:00:23 PM
> > Ah, nice --- I keep meaning to tell the checker to demote its warning
> > about NULL bugs or large stack vars in __init routines and/or routines
> > that have the substring "init" in them ;-)
>
> Please, don't. These functions are often used from/as init_module(),
> so they must handle the case when allocation fails. They can be
> called long after the boot.
I meant "demote" to mean "reducing the ranking of these errors during
sorting" rather than "eliminate from the error logs".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-25 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-24 23:01 Mikael Pettersson
2001-05-25 2:48 ` Dawson Engler
2001-05-25 3:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 3:07 ` Dawson Engler [this message]
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2001-07-03 9:15 VDA
2001-05-25 4:23 Dunlap, Randy
2001-05-24 21:10 Dawson Engler
2001-05-24 22:40 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-05-24 23:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-24 23:33 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 5:20 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 6:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-25 6:53 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 8:20 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 8:31 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 8:39 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 14:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-05-25 14:07 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 15:45 ` dean gaudet
2001-05-25 16:34 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-25 18:37 ` dean gaudet
2001-05-25 17:49 ` Jeff Dike
2001-05-25 7:11 ` David Welch
2001-05-25 8:08 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 15:31 ` dean gaudet
2001-05-25 15:49 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 18:46 ` dean gaudet
2001-05-25 8:14 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 8:25 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 8:27 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 8:37 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-25 8:17 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 11:52 ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-25 11:53 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-25 12:07 ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-25 3:38 ` Andrew Morton
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