From: Matthew Wilcox <mawil...@microsoft.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[]; }; Using kvzalloc_struct() to allocate this will save precious thinking time and reduce the possibilities of bugs. Matthew Wilcox (2): mm: Add kernel-doc for kvfree mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct include/linux/mm.h | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/util.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+) -- 2.15.1