From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]use kzalloc in vfs where appropriate
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:23:54 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0603201521020.19782@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603201414.19998.oliver@neukum.org>
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Why? size == 0 is a bug. We want to oops here.
Why do you want to oops? The standard calloc() deals with zero so
kcalloc() should probably do that as well. In any case, if you want to
change the behavior, please audit kcalloc() callers before optimizing.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 20:58 [PATCH]use kzalloc in vfs where appropriate Oliver Neukum
2006-03-17 21:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-18 10:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-03-18 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-19 13:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-03-19 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-19 20:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-03-20 7:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-03-20 12:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-03-20 13:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-20 13:14 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-03-20 13:23 ` Pekka J Enberg [this message]
2006-03-20 13:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
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