Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:48:30 -0500 | From | Xi Wang <> | Subject | [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array |
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This patch introduces a kmalloc_array() wrapper that performs integer overflow checking without zeroing the memory.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> --- Let's take "kxnalloc" off for now and keep the patch simple. --- include/linux/slab.h | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 573c809..a595dce 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *); #endif /** - * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. + * kmalloc_array - allocate memory for an array. * @n: number of elements. * @size: element size. * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. @@ -240,11 +240,22 @@ size_t ksize(const void *); * for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of * potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h. */ -static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) +static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) { if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size) return NULL; - return __kmalloc(n * size, flags | __GFP_ZERO); + return __kmalloc(n * size, flags); +} + +/** + * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. + * @n: number of elements. + * @size: element size. + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc). + */ +static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) +{ + return kmalloc_array(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO); } #if !defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && !defined(CONFIG_SLOB) -- 1.7.5.4
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