Re: What's left over.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
31 Oct 2002 14:55:22 +0000

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:26, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Yeah, historically we have avoided things like this.
> kcalloc gets proposed every year or so too.

I would like to see both of these in because tons of kernel fixing that
has been done through audits has been about

get_user(a, ...)
kmalloc(a * sizeof(b), ..)

We end up with loads of ugly > MAXINT/sizeof(foo) if checks in the code
that ought to be in one place

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