Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 01:26:41 EST



>What prevents a rogue user to call this function a number of times to
>waste resources?

Sorry to jump in, but wasting resources is a different matter than
overwriting kernel memory.



Jan Engelhardt
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