[PATCH] ath6kl: Use vmalloc for loading firmware using api1 method
Brent Taylor
motobud at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 22:10:59 PDT 2015
Signed-off-by: Brent Taylor <motobud at gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
index 6e473fa..2155739 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
@@ -673,10 +673,17 @@ static int ath6kl_get_fw(struct ath6kl *ar, const char *filename,
return ret;
*fw_len = fw_entry->size;
- *fw = kmemdup(fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
-
- if (*fw == NULL)
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ if (&ar->fw == fw) {
+ *fw = vmalloc(fw_entry->size);
+ if (*fw == NULL)
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ else
+ memcpy(*fw, fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size);
+ } else {
+ *fw = kmemdup(fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (*fw == NULL)
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ }
release_firmware(fw_entry);
--
2.6.1
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