Hi Pekka. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:44:28PM +0300, Pekka Enberg (penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > What's the difference? In saving one space and replacing another with > > comma? I do not particulary care, but would like to know why it is > > needed :) > > kcalloc() will check for multiplication overflow which is nice > especially if size is passed from user-space (not sure if that applies > here). I think that 32-bit overflow check during multiplication in allocation code is the last thing to worry about :) If this parameters are not checked before, we are screwd already... P.S. DST does not check one of them, oops. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
