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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] (repost) kmem_cache_zalloc
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In article <1019682472.15455.33.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com> you wrote:
> We'd like to incorporate this into the kernel proper, and several others
> chimed in that it would be useful, so here's the patch.  If it's a no-go
> with Linus, we can roll this functionality back under fs/xfs to reduce
> our changes in the mainline kernel.

personally I liked the kcalloc suggesition more; that would fix a lot of
multiplication exploitable bugs at the same time
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