Hi,
I accidentally used a new makedumpfile with an old VMCOREINFO that did
not contain the SIZE(nodemask_t). Then len was -1, and malloc(-1)
failed. Which looked like memory was too low.
This patch just improves the error message in that case so that the
user knows what is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>
---
makedumpfile.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -u -r1.7.2.37 makedumpfile.c
--- makedumpfile.c 9 Jul 2008 00:22:09 -0000 1.7.2.37
+++ makedumpfile.c 9 Jul 2008 11:39:43 -0000
@@ -2580,6 +2580,11 @@
&& (SYMBOL(node_states) == NOT_FOUND_SYMBOL))
return 0;
+ if (SIZE(nodemask_t) == NOT_FOUND_LONG_VALUE) {
+ ERRMSG("SIZE(nodemask_t) undefined.\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
len = SIZE(nodemask_t);
vt.node_online_map_len = len/sizeof(unsigned long);
if (!(vt.node_online_map = (unsigned long *)malloc(len))) {
