Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758420Ab2BIWmw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:42:52 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:61007 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753210Ab2BIWmv (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:42:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:42:49 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Xi Wang cc: Jens Axboe , Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Dan Carpenter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter , Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array In-Reply-To: <4F33CEAE.60400@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20120207141155.GA16184@elgon.mountain> <4F323388.7040902@kernel.dk> <20120208142513.4db2493a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4F33BF05.208@gmail.com> <4F33C7D7.1060801@kernel.dk> <32FA0BD0-7C0D-4ED4-B375-4736FC70AC05@gmail.com> <4F33CEAE.60400@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 19 On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Xi Wang wrote: > This patch introduces a kmalloc_array() wrapper that performs integer > overflow checking without zeroing the memory. > > Suggested-by: Andrew Morton > Suggested-by: Jens Axboe > Signed-off-by: Xi Wang Acked-by: David Rientjes assuming there's at least one new user or one existing user that can be modified to use the new interface and this won't just sit around not being used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/