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Date:	Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:12:58 +0200
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, <Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] usb: core: config.c: usb_get_configuration() simplified

usb_gat_configuratio() used two pointers to point to the same
memory.  Code simplified, by removing one of them.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
---
 drivers/usb/core/config.c |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> usb_get_configuration() uses a temporary buffer allocated on heap
>> to read USB configuration descriptor.  The buffer is just nine
>> bytes an so it is a waste to allocate it on heap where it can be
>> allocated on stack with the rest of local variables.  This
>> simplifies the code and minimises memory usage.

Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> writes:
> This is completely wrong.  You are not allowed to do DMA to buffers on 
> the stack; some architectures are not capable of handling it.

That makes sense; I haven't considered this thinking that copying nine
bytes by CPU, rather then using DMA, is not a big issue.

Still, the change proposed by attached commit does not suffer from DMA
issue and still simplify the code.

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/config.c b/drivers/usb/core/config.c
index 0d3af6a..4b23e7f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/config.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/config.c
@@ -722,7 +722,6 @@ int usb_get_configuration(struct usb_device *dev)
 	int ncfg = dev->descriptor.bNumConfigurations;
 	int result = 0;
 	unsigned int cfgno, length;
-	unsigned char *buffer;
 	unsigned char *bigbuffer;
 	struct usb_config_descriptor *desc;
 
@@ -751,17 +750,16 @@ int usb_get_configuration(struct usb_device *dev)
 	if (!dev->rawdescriptors)
 		goto err2;
 
-	buffer = kmalloc(USB_DT_CONFIG_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buffer)
+	desc = kmalloc(USB_DT_CONFIG_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!desc)
 		goto err2;
-	desc = (struct usb_config_descriptor *)buffer;
 
 	result = 0;
 	for (; cfgno < ncfg; cfgno++) {
 		/* We grab just the first descriptor so we know how long
 		 * the whole configuration is */
 		result = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_CONFIG, cfgno,
-		    buffer, USB_DT_CONFIG_SIZE);
+		    desc, USB_DT_CONFIG_SIZE);
 		if (result < 0) {
 			dev_err(ddev, "unable to read config index %d "
 			    "descriptor/%s: %d\n", cfgno, "start", result);
@@ -810,7 +808,7 @@ int usb_get_configuration(struct usb_device *dev)
 	result = 0;
 
 err:
-	kfree(buffer);
+	kfree(desc);
 out_not_authorized:
 	dev->descriptor.bNumConfigurations = cfgno;
 err2:
-- 
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