Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <45911FC7.1010003%NetBSD.org@localhost>, Elad Efrat  
<elad%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By:        alc
>> Date:                Tue Dec 26 00:10:40 UTC 2006
>> 
>> Modified Files:
>>      src/sys/kern: kern_sa.c
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> CID-4284: check for 'kup != NULL' after kmem_zalloc() returns
>
>this coverity issue is false, please revert.

kmem_zalloc mentions that if we sleep it will not return a failure.
On the other hand, it could be the case that the memory allocator
can detect a case where it will never be able to allocate the
requested storage, so in this case it is better to return NULL.

christos