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A common flaw in the kernel is integer overflow during memory allocation size calculations. In an effort to reduce the frequency of these bugs, kmalloc_array was implemented, which allocates memory for an array, while at the same time detects integer overflow. This patch replaces cases of: kmalloc(a * b, gfp) with: kmalloc_array(a, b, gfp) Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.