linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: add kmalloc_array_node and kcalloc

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:56:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
cc:     Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: add kmalloc_array_node and kcalloc_node

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:

> +static inline void *kmalloc_array_node(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags,
> +				       int node)
> +{
> +	if (size != 0 && n > SIZE_MAX / size)
> +		return NULL;
> +	if (__builtin_constant_p(n) && __builtin_constant_p(size))
> +		return kmalloc_node(n * size, flags, node);

Isnt the same check done by kmalloc_node already? The result of
multiplying two constants is a constant after all.