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Subject: RE: [PATCH 04/36] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting
Thread-Topic: [PATCH 04/36] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting
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From: Christopher Lameter
> Sent: 10 January 2018 18:28
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> > +struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create_usercopy(const char *name,
> > +			size_t size, size_t align, slab_flags_t flags,
> > +			size_t useroffset, size_t usersize,
> > +			void (*ctor)(void *));
> 
> Hmmm... At some point we should switch kmem_cache_create to pass a struct
> containing all the parameters. Otherwise the API will blow up with
> additional functions.

Or add an extra function to 'configure' the kmem_cache with the
extra parameters.

	David