linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: warning if total alloc size overflow

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Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:03:36 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Yang Bai <hamo.by@...il.com>
cc:	penberg@...nel.org, mpm@...enic.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: warning if total alloc size overflow

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Yang Bai wrote:

> Before, if the total alloc size is overflow,
> we just return NULL like alloc fail. But they
> are two different type problems. The former looks
> more like a programming problem. So add a warning
> here.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

Would be better to remove kcalloc and provide a generalized array size
calculation function that does the WARN(). That would also work for all
other variants zeroed or NUMA node spec etc etc.
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