linux-kernel - Re: arm: sys_oabi-compat: Use kmalloc

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Message-ID: <6ed97ce3-4378-496f-848b-c66dcc05b21d@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:07:07 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Dave Weinstein <olorin@...gle.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@...marydata.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: arm: sys_oabi-compat: Use kmalloc_array() in two functions

> It should at least make basic English sense.  I'm afraid the above
> doesn't convey any meaning what so ever, at least to me.  It doesn't
> matter how many times I read it, I still end up wondering "wtf is
> this trying to tell me?"

I have started to look a bit more on the usage of the following
function pairs in some Linux source files.

kmalloc() ⇔ kmalloc_array()
kzalloc() ⇔ kcalloc()

Can such combinations be extended anyhow?


Some update candidates can be found for this use case in several
software areas.

Regards,
Markus