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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 01:29:33PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 13:26 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > Did you consider kcalloc() ? Just like malloc() / calloc() libc
> > functions? 
> 
> Ah, there is kcaoloc already, so I guess then we could just put the
> overflow check there instead?

Yep.  That's there already.

regards,
dan carpenter