netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/8] slab: provide and use krealloc

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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:52:30 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] slab: provide and use krealloc_array()

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:17 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>
> Andy brought to my attention the fact that users allocating an array of
> equally sized elements should check if the size multiplication doesn't
> overflow. This is why we have helpers like kmalloc_array().
>
> However we don't have krealloc_array() equivalent and there are many
> users who do their own multiplication when calling krealloc() for arrays.
>
> This series provides krealloc_array() and uses it in a couple places.
>
> A separate series will follow adding devm_krealloc_array() which is
> needed in the xilinx adc driver.

The series:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

I really like this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij