Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Feb 14 2012 - 02:18:44 EST


SAFE_ARRAY_SIZE() would return the size if there were no overflow
and -1 on errors? We can't return zero on errors because there are
a lot of places which do zero size allocations and it's valid. It
seems ugly.

I really think that's over thinking things. Let's just match
kcalloc() exactly except without zeroing. The BUILD_BUG_ON() thing
is an over complication as well. We haven't needed it for
kcalloc().

The only impossible bit is picking the right name.

regards,
dan carpenter

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