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| From | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc |
| Date | 2017-08-26 17:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <uiLc5-2R7-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <uiJ0C-1BI-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <uiKzo-2nK-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 09:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > I will NACK every > patch that tries to force code that I maintain to use kcalloc over kzalloc. Your choice. The concept behind the kzalloc with multiply vs kcalloc is protection against multiplication overflow. It's unlikely to solve any real problem with a sizeof(foo) * small known number of entries. It does have application when number of entries is a user specified value.
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[PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc Yurii Pavlenko <pyldev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-26 15:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2017-08-26 16:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-08-26 17:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2017-08-28 10:40 +0200
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