vcalloc, if you don't like it in vmalloc just say and I'll move it
into dm.h. However I do feel it is generally useful for the implicit
array size overflow check.
--- diff/kernel/ksyms.c 2002-10-29 16:18:17.000000000 +0000
+++ source/kernel/ksyms.c 2002-10-29 16:21:32.000000000 +0000
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vcalloc);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_32);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap);
--- diff/include/linux/vmalloc.h 2002-10-16 04:29:06.000000000 +0100
+++ source/include/linux/vmalloc.h 2002-10-29 16:21:32.000000000 +0000
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
extern void *vmalloc(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_32(unsigned long size);
extern void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, int gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot);
+extern void *vcalloc(unsigned long nmemb, unsigned long elem_size);
extern void vfree(void *addr);
extern void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count);
--- diff/mm/vmalloc.c 2002-10-23 09:32:25.000000000 +0100
+++ source/mm/vmalloc.c 2002-10-29 16:21:32.000000000 +0000
@@ -520,3 +520,22 @@
read_unlock(&vmlist_lock);
return buf - buf_start;
}
+
+void *vcalloc(unsigned long nmemb, unsigned long elem_size)
+{
+ unsigned long size;
+ void *addr;
+
+ /*
+ * Check that we're not going to overflow.
+ */
+ if (nmemb > (ULONG_MAX / elem_size))
+ return NULL;
+
+ size = nmemb * elem_size;
+ addr = vmalloc(size);
+ if (addr)
+ memset(addr, 0, size);
+
+ return addr;
+}