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qlcnic: Don't use kzalloc unncecessarily for allocating large chunk of memory

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Driver allocates a large chunk of temporary buffer using kzalloc
to copy FW image. As there is no real need of this memory to be
physically contiguous, use vzalloc instead.

Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Shahed Shaikh
2015-08-07 07:17:06 -04:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent da286a6fd1
commit 0e90ad9bfd
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
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@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static int qlcnic_83xx_copy_fw_file(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
size_t size;
u64 addr;
temp = kzalloc(fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
temp = vzalloc(fw->size);
if (!temp) {
release_firmware(fw);
fw_info->fw = NULL;
@@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@ static int qlcnic_83xx_copy_fw_file(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
exit:
release_firmware(fw);
fw_info->fw = NULL;
kfree(temp);
vfree(temp);
return ret;
}