On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:26, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Yeah, historically we have avoided things like this.
> kcalloc gets proposed every year or so too.

I would like to see both of these in because tons of kernel fixing that
has been done through audits has been about


	get_user(a, ...)
	kmalloc(a * sizeof(b), ..)

We end up with loads of ugly  > MAXINT/sizeof(foo) if checks in the code
that ought to be in one place


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