Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add kvzalloc_struct to complement kvzalloc_array | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:47:38 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 10:26 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> > > We all know the perils of multiplying a value provided from userspace > by a constant and then allocating the resulting number of bytes. That's > why we have kvmalloc_array(), so we don't have to think about it. > This solves the same problem when we embed one of these arrays in a > struct like this: > > struct { > int n; > unsigned long array[]; > };
I think expanding the number of allocation functions is not necessary.
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