netdev - Re: [Bug #14016] mm/ipw2200 regression

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:51:18 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #14016] mm/ipw2200 regression

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:27:41AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:

> 64 pages, presumably 256k, for fw->boot_size while current ipw
> firmware images have ~188k.  I don't know jack squat about this
> driver, but given the field name and the struct:
> 
> 	struct ipw_fw {
> 		__le32 ver;
> 		__le32 boot_size;
> 		__le32 ucode_size;
> 		__le32 fw_size;
> 		u8 data[0];
> 	};
> 
> fw->boot_size alone being that big sounds a bit fishy to me.

Scrap that, I just noticed the second call to ipw_load_firmware() a
few lines later... :)

	Hannes 'when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead...'
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