[PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check

As davem points out, this wasn't such a great idea.  There may be some code
which does:

	size = 1024*1024;
	while (kmalloc(size, ...) == 0)
		size /= 2;

which will now explode.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index ad113c431e39..c9adfce00405 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2907,7 +2907,8 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
          * functions.
          */
         cachep = __find_general_cachep(size, flags);
-        BUG_ON(!cachep);                /* Allocation size too large for kmalloc */
+        if (unlikely(cachep == NULL))
+                return NULL;
         return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);