--- linux-2.4.28-pre4/include/linux/vmalloc.h 2004-10-14 11:07:13.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h 2004-10-14 11:08:02.000000000 -0500 @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ extern void vmfree_area_pages(unsigned long address, unsigned long size); extern int vmalloc_area_pages(unsigned long address, unsigned long size, int gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot); +extern void *vcalloc(unsigned long nmemb, unsigned long elem_size); /* * Allocate any pages --- linux-2.4.28-pre4/kernel/ksyms.c 2004-10-14 11:07:15.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/kernel/ksyms.c 2004-10-14 11:08:02.000000000 -0500 @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc); EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap); EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_to_page); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vcalloc); EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_map); EXPORT_SYMBOL(remap_page_range); EXPORT_SYMBOL(max_mapnr); --- linux-2.4.28-pre4/mm/vmalloc.c 2004-10-14 11:07:15.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/mm/vmalloc.c 2004-10-14 11:08:02.000000000 -0500 @@ -382,3 +382,22 @@ read_unlock(&vmlist_lock); return buf - buf_start; } + +void *vcalloc(unsigned long nmemb, unsigned long elem_size) +{ + unsigned long size; + void *addr; + + /* + * Check that we're not going to overflow. + */ + if (nmemb > (ULONG_MAX / elem_size)) + return NULL; + + size = nmemb * elem_size; + addr = vmalloc(size); + if (addr) + memset(addr, 0, size); + + return addr; +}