linux-kernel - Re: Is this code right in zram?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:33:56 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Cc:	John Moser <john.r.moser@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is this code right in zram?

On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 14:08 +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> It probably doesn't matter much.

Likely true.

> Apparently kcalloc() never got  a lot
> of success and kzalloc(sizeof(foo) * num_foos) type of allocation are
> more popular.

Likely false, especially in new code.

If you did greps, perhaps you are including the
	k.alloc(sizeof(*foo), GFP)
forms in your uses multiply counts.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/