Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:07:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset |
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Hi,
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> kcalloc does have value, in that it's a nice api to avoid multiplication > overflows. Just for "1" it's indeed not the most useful API.
This would imply a similiar kmalloc() would be useful as well. Second, how relevant is it for the kernel? Is that really the best place to check for rogue user parameters?
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