Re: Distributed storage release.

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

Hi Pekka.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:44:28PM +0300, Pekka Enberg (penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > What's the difference? In saving one space and replacing another with
> > comma? I do not particulary care, but would like to know why it is
> > needed :)
> 
> kcalloc() will check for multiplication overflow which is nice
> especially if size is passed from user-space (not sure if that applies
> here).

I think that 32-bit overflow check during multiplication in allocation
code is the last thing to worry about :)
If this parameters are not checked before, we are screwd already...

P.S. DST does not check one of them, oops.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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