linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Uninline kcalloc()

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:44:35 +0400
From:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uninline kcalloc()

On 9/24/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:03:49 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan said:
>
> > -static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> > -{
> > -	if (n != 0 && size > ULONG_MAX / n)
> > -		return NULL;
> > -	return __kmalloc(n * size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
> > -}
> > +void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags);
>
> NAK.
>
> This busticates some pretty subtle code in mm/slab.c that uses
> uses __builtin_return_address() for debugging

Interesting. Here is output from kernel with patch applied and leak
plugged into proc_dointvec() (I checked twice):

        $ grep kcalloc /proc/slab_allocators
        $ grep proc_dointvec /proc/slab_allocators
        size-64: 19 proc_dointvec+0x48/0xa0
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