introduce SIZE_MAX
ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating
allocation size. While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there
is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'.
This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve
portability and readability for allocation size validation.
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index a595dce..67d5d94 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
*/
static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
- if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size)
+ if (size != 0 && n > SIZE_MAX / size)
return NULL;
return __kmalloc(n * size, flags);
}