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Date:      Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:38:35 +0200
From:      Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r282250 - head/sys/sys
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> I'm talking about sys/kern/subr_nvlist.c.
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Yes. lib/libnv is compiling sys/kern/subr_nvlist.c.
This is the reason why we have nv_malloc.
One nv_malloc is for kernel:

#define nv_malloc(size)    malloc((size), M_NVLIST, M_WAITOK)

and second nv_malloc is for user-land:

#define nv_malloc(size)    (malloc((size)):

So in user-land all checks are still needed in sys/kern/subr_nvlist.c.

Thanks,
Mariusz Zaborski



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