Re: [PATCH]use kzalloc in vfs where appropriate

From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Mon Mar 20 2006 - 08:06:15 EST


On Monday 20 March 2006 09:25, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Rewriting the test as:
> > n!=0 && n > INT_MAX / size
> > saves the division because size is much likelier to be a constant, and indeed
> > the code is better:
> >
> > cmpq $268435455, %rax
> > movq $0, 40(%rsp)
> > ja .L313
> >
> > Is there anything I am missing?

You may drop "n!=0" part, but you must check size!=0.
Since if size is 0, kcalloc returns NULL, then

if (!size || n > INT_MAX / size)
return NULL;

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vda
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