Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 02:30:24 EST


On 12/31/06, Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Looking at aligned_kmalloc() it seems to be pretty badly broken -- its fallback
if it gets a non-aligned buffer is to just try a larger size which doesn't
necessarily fix the problem. It looks like explicitly aligning the buffer
is a better solution.

Shouldn't we be using dma_alloc_*() here instead of abusing kmalloc()?
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