Re: Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?

June 17, 2011


      On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:47:25AM +0200, Arvid Brodin wrote:
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/**** 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.
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if (!pages) {
      retval = -ENOMEM;
      goto err_pages;
  }
Greetings,
	Jonathan Neuschäfer