[ofw][PATCH] [IBBUS][WinVerbs][SDP] Validation of non-zerosizewhen calling to ExAllocatePoolWithTag

Alex Naslednikov xalex at mellanox.co.il
Mon Oct 26 11:44:18 PDT 2009


One of functions inside ibbus, the failures were not consistent.
The original call was to __cl_zalloc_ntrk, then to __cl_malloc_priv

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Hefty [mailto:sean.hefty at intel.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:39 PM
To: Alex Naslednikov; Fab Tillier; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org; Leonid
Keller
Subject: RE: [ofw][PATCH] [IBBUS][WinVerbs][SDP] Validation of
non-zerosizewhen calling to ExAllocatePoolWithTag

>Because you will get BSOD when running verifier with low-resources.
>And why to call this function with zero when it's not advisable ?

Which functions specifically try to allocate 0 bytes?

- Sean




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