Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmalloc + memset(foo, 0, bar) = kmalloc0

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2003-09-11 at 22:58, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> On 09.11, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Bad choice of name - too easy to confuse with kmalloc().
> > 
> > kmalloc_and_zero() would be much clearer.
> > 
> 
> Why not kcalloc() ?

A kcalloc that also checked for maths overflows would probably
help avoid various errors and checks against ~0/sizeof(n) in
drivers we have now

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