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

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 02:40 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> I actually looked at the current kcalloc users and besides a few unchecked 
> module parameters, the arguments were either constant or had to be checked 
> anyway. I didn't find a single example which required the "safety" of 
> kcalloc().

Every caller of kcalloc() should do proper bounds checking. It's just
that when they forget to do it, we hopefully avoid a buffer overflow
which can be exploited.

			Pekka

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