On 8/5/05, Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > This would imply a similiar kmalloc() would be useful as well.
> > > Second, how relevant is it for the kernel?
> > we've had a non-negliable amount of security holes because of this
> So why don't we have a similiar kmalloc()?
You mean something like:
static void __bad_kmalloc_safe_nonconstant_size(void);
static void __bad_kmalloc_safe_zero_size(void);
static void __bad_kmalloc_safe_too_large_size(void);
static void __bad_kmalloc_safe_too_large(void);
static inline void *kmalloc_safe(size_t nmemb, size_t size,int flags) {
if (!__builtin_constant_p(size))
__bad_kmalloc_safe_nonconstant_size();
if ( !size )
__bad_kmalloc_safe_zero_size();
if ( size > 0x10000)
__bad_kmalloc_safe_too_large_size();
if (__builtin_constant_p(nmemb) && nmemb > 0x20000/size)
__bad_kmalloc_safe_too_large();
if (nmemb <= 0x20000/size)
return kmalloc(nmemb*size,flags);
else return 0; }
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