Re: [PATCH]use kzalloc in vfs where appropriate

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Why? size == 0 is a bug. We want to oops here.

Why do you want to oops? The standard calloc() deals with zero so 
kcalloc() should probably do that as well. In any case, if you want to 
change the behavior, please audit kcalloc() callers before optimizing.

			Pekka
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