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From: "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: RFC: mallocarray()
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:51:09 +0100
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Hi,

I’d like to make it easier to avoid integer overflow issues in the 
kernel.
It’d be a lot nicer to have a malloc function figure this out for us, 
so I’d like mallocarray().

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13766

Are there any objections to this?

Regards,
Kristof