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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Message-ID: <84144f020701032329v309a8e4fif130ef5d1f4b1a93@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:29:55 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Mitchell Blank Jr" <mitch@...oth.com>
Cc:	"Amit Choudhary" <amit2030@...il.com>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	chas@....nrl.navy.mil
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.

On 12/31/06, Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@...oth.com> wrote:
> Looking at aligned_kmalloc() it seems to be pretty badly broken -- its fallback
> if it gets a non-aligned buffer is to just try a larger size which doesn't
> necessarily fix the problem.  It looks like explicitly aligning the buffer
> is a better solution.

Shouldn't we be using dma_alloc_*() here instead of abusing kmalloc()?
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