From 8437754c83351d6213c1a47ff029c1126d6042a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Natarajan Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:21:25 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ath6kl: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for fw Sometimes it has been observed that allocating a contiguous memory of more than 100K fails with kmalloc. This has been modified to use vmalloc instead. Signed-off-by: PingYang Zhang Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c index 5c20a04..fdb3b1d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "debug.h" #include "hif-ops.h" @@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ void ath6kl_core_cleanup(struct ath6kl *ar) kfree(ar->fw_board); kfree(ar->fw_otp); - kfree(ar->fw); + vfree(ar->fw); kfree(ar->fw_patch); kfree(ar->fw_testscript); diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c index 092e4cd..5949ab5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "core.h" #include "cfg80211.h" @@ -928,13 +929,14 @@ static int ath6kl_fetch_fw_apin(struct ath6kl *ar, const char *name) if (ar->fw != NULL) break; - ar->fw = kmemdup(data, ie_len, GFP_KERNEL); + ar->fw = vmalloc(ie_len); if (ar->fw == NULL) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } + memcpy(ar->fw, data, ie_len); ar->fw_len = ie_len; break; case ATH6KL_FW_IE_PATCH_IMAGE: -- 2.7.4