Re: dm: writecache: Use 2-factor allocator arguments

Mike Snitzer
2018-06-27T21:52:40Z

On Wed, Jun 27 2018 at 5:48pm -0400,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > This adjusts the allocator calls to use the 2-factor argument style, as
> > already done treewide for better defense against allocator overflows.
> > Additionally adjusts style nit to avoid assignments in test expressions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Friendly ping -- I'd like to make sure this makes it into 4.18. All
> other 2-factor allocations have been fixed in the kernel.

Yeap, I'll be sending it to Linus this week. Already staged and ready
to go, please see:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.18&id=50a7d3ba7c9ac5e0b7e03fc7f420180989361dbf

Thanks,
Mike