Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmalloc + memset(foo, 0, bar) = kmalloc0 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:12:23 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-09-11 at 22:58, J.A. Magallon wrote: > On 09.11, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > > Bad choice of name - too easy to confuse with kmalloc(). > > > > kmalloc_and_zero() would be much clearer. > > > > Why not kcalloc() ?
A kcalloc that also checked for maths overflows would probably help avoid various errors and checks against ~0/sizeof(n) in drivers we have now
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