From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
We all know the perils of multiplying a value provided from userspace
by a constant and then allocating the resulting number of bytes. That's
why we have kvmalloc_array(), so we don't have to think about it.
This solves the same problem when we embed one of these arrays in a
struct like this:
struct {
int n;
unsigned long array[];
};
Using kvzalloc_struct() to allocate this will save precious thinking
time and reduce the possibilities of bugs.
v2: Minor fixes pointed out by Kees
Added sample conversions
I added a few more sample conversions for demonstration purposes, and
one thing I noticed is that the kvmalloc family of functions live in
<linux/mm.h> which (contrary to popular belief) is not already
automatically included everywhere.
Should they be moved to slab.h to be with kmalloc, a new file
(malloc.h? kvmalloc.h?), or even kernel.h?
Matthew Wilcox (8):
mm: Add kernel-doc for kvfree
mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct
Convert virtio_console to kvzalloc_struct
Convert dax device to kvzalloc_struct
Convert infiniband uverbs to kvzalloc_struct
Convert v4l2 event to kvzalloc_struct
Convert vhost to kvzalloc_struct
Convert jffs2 acl to kvzalloc_struct
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 3 +--
drivers/dax/device.c | 2 +-
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 4 +--
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c | 3 +--
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
fs/jffs2/acl.c | 3 ++-
fs/jffs2/acl.h | 1 +
include/linux/mm.h | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 5 +---
mm/util.c | 10 +++++++
10 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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2.15.1
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