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

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Wed Nov 11 09:43:14 UTC 2015


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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