svn commit: r233745 - head/sys/netinet/ipfw
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 4 12:13:48 UTC 2012
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")
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John Baldwin
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