Re: [PATCH] sys_select() kmallocs 0 bytes.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 16:06:40 EDT

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    > ret = -EINVAL;
    > - if (n < 0)
    > + if (n <= 0)
    > goto out_nofds;

    This is incorrect. In fact the zero kmalloc if anything is harmless. A
    0 fd select is legal and used for timers

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