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From: j.neuschaefer@gmx.net (Jonathan Neuschäfer)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:10:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110617151014.GB1451@debian.debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DFAA41D.5010307@enea.com>

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:47:25AM +0200, Arvid Brodin wrote:
[...]
> 	/**** User page code ****/
> 
> 	pages = kmalloc(nr_pages * sizeof(*pages), GFP_KERNEL);

kcalloc?

You don't need the zeroing but the overflow check might be useful.

> 	if (!pages) {
> 		retval = -ENOMEM;
> 		goto err_pages;
> 	}

Greetings,
	Jonathan Neusch?fer

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 23:06 Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment? Arvid Brodin
2011-05-25 20:27 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-05-26  4:02   ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-27 21:58     ` Arvid Brodin
2011-05-28  9:42       ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-17  0:47         ` Arvid Brodin
2011-06-17 15:10           ` Jonathan Neuschäfer [this message]
2011-06-17 15:18             ` Metin KAYA
2011-06-17 17:59               ` Dave Hylands
2011-06-17 18:46               ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2011-06-17 18:53                 ` Dave Hylands
2011-06-17 19:00                 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer

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