Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > > we've had a non-negliable amount of security holes because of this
> > 
> > So why don't we have a similiar kmalloc()?
> 
> nope kmalloc is not an array allocator
> 
> > > it makes it easy and safe. Of course you can and should check it in all
> > > users. Just that using a safer API is generally better than forcing
> > > everyone to do it themselves.
> > 
> > How exactly does this make it a "safe API"? Even if it checks for this one 
> > case, it still makes the user suspectible for allocating big amounts of 
> > unswappable memory.
> 
> 128Kb max.

You completely missed the point and didn't answer my questions at all... :-(

bye, Roman
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