Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array() to duplicate an array

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 11:36:52 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 2:17 PM Kartik <kkartik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Introduce function kmemdup_array(), that will copy `n` number of
> elements from a given array `src` to `dst`.
>
> On success, kmemdup_array() returns 0 and copy the elements from `src`
> to newly allocated array `dst`, it also stores number of elements
> copied from `src` array to `dst_count` parameter. On failure, this
> returns a negative integer value containing the error value.

Hmm... Why is it so complicated?

Can it be as simple as

return kmemdup(size_mul());

?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko