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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/8] slab: provide and use krealloc_array()
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:17 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>
> Andy brought to my attention the fact that users allocating an array of
> equally sized elements should check if the size multiplication doesn't
> overflow. This is why we have helpers like kmalloc_array().
>
> However we don't have krealloc_array() equivalent and there are many
> users who do their own multiplication when calling krealloc() for arrays.
>
> This series provides krealloc_array() and uses it in a couple places.
>
> A separate series will follow adding devm_krealloc_array() which is
> needed in the xilinx adc driver.

The series:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

I really like this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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