Thread (99 messages) 99 messages, 9 authors, 2024-08-30

Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] mm: BUG_ON to avoid NULL deference while __GFP_NOFAIL fails

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2024-08-19 12:49:33
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:33:06PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
It should all be caught during testing either way. And if some OOT module 
does something nasty, that's not our responsibility.

BUG_ON is not a way to write assertions into the code.
So you'd rather create exploits than crashing on a fundamental API
violation?  That's exactly what the series is trying to fix.
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