The patch titled
Subject: slab: introduce kmalloc_array()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
slab-introduce-kmalloc_array.patch
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From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: slab: introduce kmalloc_array()
Introduce a kmalloc_array() wrapper that performs integer overflow
checking without zeroing the memory.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/slab.h~slab-introduce-kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h
--- a/include/linux/slab.h~slab-introduce-kmalloc_array
+++ a/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *);
#endif
/**
- * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
+ * kmalloc_array - allocate memory for an array.
* @n: number of elements.
* @size: element size.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
@@ -240,11 +240,22 @@ size_t ksize(const void *);
* for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of
* potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h.
*/
-static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size)
return NULL;
- return __kmalloc(n * size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+ return __kmalloc(n * size, flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ */
+static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return kmalloc_array(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
}
#if !defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && !defined(CONFIG_SLOB)
_
Subject: Subject: slab: introduce kmalloc_array()
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
slab-introduce-kmalloc_array.patch
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