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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:05:10 +0200
From: "Jussi Kivilinna" <jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi>
To: "Jiri Pirko" <jpirko@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] wireless: convert to use
netdev_for_each_mc_addr
Quoting "Jiri Pirko" <jpirko@...hat.com>:
> Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:42:56PM CET, jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Quoting "Jiri Pirko" <jpirko@...hat.com>:
>>
>>> + } else if (mc_count) {
>>> + int size = min(priv->multicast_size, mc_count);
>>> + int i = 0;
>>> +
>>> + mc_addrs = kmalloc(size * ETH_ALEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
>> ...
>>> + if (filter != basefilter)
>>> + goto set_filter;
>>> +
>>> + if (mc_count) {
>>> + ret = rndis_set_oid(usbdev, OID_802_3_MULTICAST_LIST, mc_addrs,
>>> + mc_count * ETH_ALEN);
>>> + kfree(mc_addrs);
>>
>> mc_addrs was alloced by with 'size * ETH_ALEN', which might be less
>> than mc_count * ETH_ALEN.
>
> Actually it cannot. That's covered by:
>
> if (mc_count > priv->multicast_size) {
>
> This was also in the original code. In that case "size" can be eliminated and
> "mc_addrs" can be allocated with "mc_count * ETH_ALEN".
>
> Jussi are you ok with this?
>
> Jirka
Ah, you're right. Yes, 'size' can go away, it isn't needed after all.
I'm ok with this patch, I can fix 'size' to 'mc_count' myself later.
-Jussi
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