linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.

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Date:	Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:47:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amit2030@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix
 infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.

From: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:26:03 -0800

> Description: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0 in function aligned_kmalloc(), in file drivers/atm/firestream.c. Also, a negative value for alignment does not make sense. Check for negative value too.
> The function prototype is:
> 		static void __devinit *aligned_kmalloc (int size, gfp_t flags, int alignment).
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>

There is only one call to aligned_kmalloc() and it passes in
0x10 as the alignment argument.  Therefore all of this checking
is completely pointless.
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