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/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index ec55a3c..e07f5e0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#define LLONG_MAX ((long long)(~0ULL>>1))
#define LLONG_MIN (-LLONG_MAX - 1)
#define ULLONG_MAX (~0ULL)
+#define SIZE_MAX (~(size_t)0)
#define STACK_MAGIC 0xdeadbeef