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Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] staging: rtl8188eu: kzalloc replaced by kmalloc

From Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] staging: rtl8188eu: kzalloc replaced by kmalloc
Date 2015-11-11 10:50 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 02:11:08PM +0700, Ivan Safonov wrote:
> _rtl88e_fill_dummy fills the array elemets with zeros if necessary.
> 

_rtl88e_fill_dummy() fills the last sizeof(u32) or whatever so the code
is aligned but it doesn't fill up to the end of FW_8188E_SIZE.  Why do
we even allocate that much memory.  Why don't we just allocate:

	pfwdata = kmalloc(round_up(fwsize, sizeof(u32)), GFP_KERNEL);

regards,
dan carpenter

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[PATCH v2 05/12] staging: rtl8188eu: kzalloc replaced by kmalloc Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com> - 2015-11-08 08:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] staging: rtl8188eu: kzalloc replaced by kmalloc Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-11-11 10:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] staging: rtl8188eu: kzalloc replaced by kmalloc Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 11:20 +0100

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