linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: keucr: check kmalloc() return value

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Date:	Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:52:49 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Al Cho <acho@...ell.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: keucr: check kmalloc() return value

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:56:43PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> kmalloc() may fail, if so return error code.
> Also don't alloc 16 bytes from the heap, use stack instead.

I don't have ENE_SendScsiCmd() in my repo, but I think it's a DMA
function.  You're not supposed to use stack memory for DMA transfers.
This is documented in:  Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

So the original code is correct here (except that there is no error
handling).

regards,
dan carpenter


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