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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:36:13 -0800
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add kvzalloc_struct to complement kvzalloc_array
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To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:32:45AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 11:23 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > I think expanding the number of allocation functions
> > > is not necessary.
> > 
> > I think removing common mispatterns in favor of overflow-protected
> > allocation functions makes sense.
> 
> Function symmetry matters too.
> 
> These allocation functions are specific to kvz<foo>
> and are not symmetric for k<foo>, v<foo>, devm_<foo>
> <foo>_node, and the like.

If somebody wants them, then we can add them.

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