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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:42:17 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/8] ethtool: Allocate register dump buffer with vmalloc() Some NICs have huge register files which exceed the maximum heap allocation size. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> --- net/core/ethtool.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c index 91ffce2..dae2fd0 100644 --- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr) if (regs.len > reglen) regs.len = reglen; - regbuf = kmalloc(reglen, GFP_USER); + regbuf = vmalloc(reglen); if (!regbuf) return -ENOMEM; @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr) ret = 0; out: - kfree(regbuf); + vfree(regbuf); return ret; } -- 1.7.2.1 -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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