Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?
Metin KAYA
kayameti at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 11:18:06 EDT 2011
Jonathan, it's kmalloc(), not kcalloc().
On 17 Haz 2011, at 18:10, Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:47:25AM +0200, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> [...]
>> /**** User page code ****/
>>
>> pages = kmalloc(nr_pages * sizeof(*pages), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> kcalloc?
>
> You don't need the zeroing but the overflow check might be useful.
>
>> if (!pages) {
>> retval = -ENOMEM;
>> goto err_pages;
>> }
>
> Greetings,
> Jonathan Neuschäfer
>
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