(fix - thanks to Manfred) Re: 2.3.41: kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large.

[Tigran Aivazian]

oops, I just thought... nfds=0 can be used as a timeout facility, stand by
for a proper fix...

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Manfred spotted it - it was nfds = 0 that would cause overflow. Dumb I was
> checking the entire range +/-2G and forgetting about the middle :)
> 
> Here is the fix (return 0 like other Unices do if nfds = 0).
> 
> Regards,
> ------
> Tigran A. Aivazian           | http://www.sco.com
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> 
> --- select.c.0	Mon Jan 31 08:48:52 2000
> +++ select.c	Mon Jan 31 08:51:06 2000
> @@ -391,6 +391,9 @@
>  	poll_table *wait_table = NULL, *wait = NULL;
>  	int nchunks, nleft;
>  
> +	if (nfds == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	/* Do a sanity check on nfds ... */
>  	if (nfds > current->files->max_fds)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> 
> 
> 
> 


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