From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758987AbZBLKpf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:45:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757061AbZBLKpY (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:45:24 -0500 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:38287 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755842AbZBLKpX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:45:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize() From: Pekka Enberg To: Herbert Xu Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Christoph Lameter , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com In-Reply-To: <20090212104349.GA13859@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1234272104-10211-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <84144f020902100535i4d626a9fj8cbb305120cf332a@mail.gmail.com> <20090210134651.GA5115@epbyminw8406h.minsk.epam.com> <20090212104349.GA13859@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:45:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1234435521.28812.165.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:06:53PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > > Herbert, what do you think of this (untested) patch? Alternatively, we > > could do something like kfree_secure() but it seems overkill for this one > > call-site. On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:43 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > I don't understand why you want to limit the use of ksize. Because the API was being widely abused in the nommu code, for example. I'd rather not add it back for this special case which can be handled otherwise. Pekka