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Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:10:26 -0700 From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" To: Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, urezki@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, khalid@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() Message-ID: References: <20251018201207.27441-1-mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251018201207.27441-1-mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gmail.com> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 09:11:48PM +0100, Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa wrote: > The number of NUMA nodes (nr_node_ids) is bounded, so overflow is not a > practical concern here. However, using kmalloc_array() better reflects the > intent to allocate an array of unsigned ints, and improves consistency with > other NUMA-related allocations. > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa > --- Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle)