Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod'

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:25:11 -0400 (EDT), 
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>modutils-2.3.15, and probably later, has a bug that can prevent
>modules from being loaded from initrd, this results in not
>being able to mount a root file-system. The bug assumes that
>malloc() will return a valid pointer when given an allocation
>size of zero.

Sigh :(  Fixed over two years ago.

modutils Changelog.  2001-05-06 modutils 2.4.6

	* Do not assume that malloc(0) returns a pointer.  Bug report by
	  Kiichiro Naka, different fix by Keith Owens.

void *
xmalloc(size_t size)
{
  void *ptr = malloc(size ? size : 1);
  if (!ptr)
    {
      error("Out of memory");
      exit(1);
    }
  return ptr;
}