On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 05:11:22PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > Technically kzalloc_flex is simpler but I assume a devm version of
> > that will be handled in another treewide commit.
>
> Yup, that's coming. I wanted to get the "first pass" of the base kmalloc
> family converted first. There are a few classes of "kmalloc wrappers"
> like devm_* that I'm hoping to convert to type-based allocations. devm
> is next. :)
As an aside, I recently noticed a pattern of kzalloc + kmemdup_array.
As kzalloc_flex is basically, kzalloc + kcalloc, Would a kmemdup_flex
make sense?
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> --
> Kees Cook
