Hi, On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > This would imply a similiar kmalloc() would be useful as well. > > Second, how relevant is it for the kernel? > > we've had a non-negliable amount of security holes because of this So why don't we have a similiar kmalloc()? > > Is that really the best place > > to check for rogue user parameters? > > it makes it easy and safe. Of course you can and should check it in all > users. Just that using a safer API is generally better than forcing > everyone to do it themselves. How exactly does this make it a "safe API"? Even if it checks for this one case, it still makes the user suspectible for allocating big amounts of unswappable memory. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
