On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 09:59:27AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Did this ever happen?
Not yet. I brought it up at LSFMM, and I'll repost the patches soon. > I'd also like to see kmalloc_array_3d() or > something that takes three size arguments. We have a lot of this > pattern too: > > kmalloc(sizeof(foo) * A * B, gfp...) > > And we could turn that into: > > kmalloc_array_3d(sizeof(foo), A, B, gfp...) Are either of A or B constant? Because if so, we could just use kmalloc_array. If not, then kmalloc_array_3d becomes a little more expensive than kmalloc_array because we have to do a divide at runtime instead of compile-time. that's still better than allocating too few bytes, of course. I'm wondering how far down the abc + ab + ac + bc + d rabbit-hole we're going to end up going. As far as we have to, I guess.
