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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:47:38 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, Kees Cook
<keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add kvzalloc_struct to complement kvzalloc_array
On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 10:26 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
>
> 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[];
> };
I think expanding the number of allocation functions
is not necessary.
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