linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:45:21 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:06:53PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > Herbert, what do you think of this (untested) patch? Alternatively, we 
> > could do something like kfree_secure() but it seems overkill for this one 
> > call-site.

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:43 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I don't understand why you want to limit the use of ksize.

Because the API was being widely abused in the nommu code, for example.
I'd rather not add it back for this special case which can be handled
otherwise.

			Pekka

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