From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Kartik <kkartik@nvidia.com>
Cc: thierry.reding@gmail.com, jonathanh@nvidia.com,
keescook@chromium.org, andy@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, petlozup@nvidia.com,
pshete@nvidia.com, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, frank.li@vivo.com,
robh@kernel.org, stefank@nvidia.com, pdeschrijver@nvidia.com,
linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array() to duplicate an array
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:36:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VdBh0k_XU3GG99EvgLOztOFWn87QXknpokcDy=29yu=Aw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231011093412.7994-2-kkartik@nvidia.com>
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 2:17 PM Kartik <kkartik@nvidia.com> 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());
?
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-11 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-11 9:34 [PATCH v4 0/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Add ACPI support Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array() to duplicate an array Kartik
2023-10-11 15:36 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2023-10-11 16:13 ` Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Use dev_err_probe for probe failures Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Refactor resource mapping Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Add tegra_acpi_init_apbmisc() Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Add function to add lookups Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Add function to print SKU info Kartik
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Add ACPI support for Tegra194 and Tegra234 Kartik
2023-10-12 18:59 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] soc/tegra: fuse: Add support for Tegra241 Kartik
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