On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Sure, I don't want to disable the check. I want that check to be
> in _non-inlined function_.
>
> static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, unsigned int __nocast
> flags)
> {
> if (__builtin_constant_p(n)) {
> if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
> return NULL;
> return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
> }
> return kcalloc_helper(n, size, flags);
> }
>
> void *kcalloc_helper(size_t n, size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
> {
> if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
> return NULL;
> return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
> }
That's extra complexity and code duplication. How much do we shave off
kernel text of allyesconfig with this?
Please note that whenever the caller does proper bounds checking, GCC can
optimize the security check away. Therefore, in practice, we don't spread
around the extra operations so much, I think.
Pekka
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