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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