Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:57:42 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r233745 - head/sys/netinet/ipfw Message-ID: <201204040757.42452.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4F7B8BF0.2000906@freebsd.org> References: <201203311120.q2VBKmJT099513@svn.freebsd.org> <4F7B8BF0.2000906@freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 7:46:56 pm Julian Elischer wrote: > On 3/31/12 4:20 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > > Many years ago there was the possibility that malloc M_WAITOK could > return on shutdown or in some other rare error cases. > > Are we certain this is no longer true? That hasn't been true in a long while. In edge cases malloc() with M_WAITOK will just panic rather than return NULL. (e.g. "kmem too small") -- John Baldwin
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