28 Oct
2021
28 Oct
'21
5:38 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:03:19AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 05:28:47AM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
Lack of documentation inside Linux here is a bit annoying, but do I understand it correctly, that the main (and probably only) difference is that kvcalloc checks whether the multiplication overflows and returns NULL in this case?
That's correct. :)
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:21 AM Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavoars@kernel.org wrote:
Use 2-factor argument form kvcalloc() instead of kvzalloc().
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavoars@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org
I'll take this in my -next tree.
Thanks -- Gustavo