On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: > One of the applications of kcalloc() is to prevent userspace from > causing a multiplicative overflow (and then perhaps causing an > overwrite beyond the end of the allocated memory). > > With this patch, we've just handed the user a way of spamming the logs > at 1MHz. This is bad. Well there is WARN_ON_ONCE too to prevent that. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>