[PATCH] UBI: Fix allocation of volume table

JiSheng Zhang jszhang3 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 21:25:24 EDT 2009


We can't use vmalloc for the buffer used for volume table for some NAND
or NOR drivers may pass the buffer to DMA. And the volume table size
a.k.a vtbl_size is small so we can use kmalloc or kzalloc for it instead.

Signed-off-by: JiSheng Zhang <jszhang3 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
index 1afc61e..9dcc7ba 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
@@ -424,12 +424,11 @@ static struct ubi_vtbl_record *process_lvol(struct ubi_device *ubi,
 
 	/* Read both LEB 0 and LEB 1 into memory */
 	ubi_rb_for_each_entry(rb, seb, &sv->root, u.rb) {
-		leb[seb->lnum] = vmalloc(ubi->vtbl_size);
+		leb[seb->lnum] = kzalloc(ubi->vtbl_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!leb[seb->lnum]) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out_free;
 		}
-		memset(leb[seb->lnum], 0, ubi->vtbl_size);
 
 		err = ubi_io_read_data(ubi, leb[seb->lnum], seb->pnum, 0,
 				       ubi->vtbl_size);
@@ -515,10 +514,9 @@ static struct ubi_vtbl_record *create_empty_lvol(struct ubi_device *ubi,
 	int i;
 	struct ubi_vtbl_record *vtbl;
 
-	vtbl = vmalloc(ubi->vtbl_size);
+	vtbl = kzalloc(ubi->vtbl_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vtbl)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	memset(vtbl, 0, ubi->vtbl_size);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ubi->vtbl_slots; i++)
 		memcpy(&vtbl[i], &empty_vtbl_record, UBI_VTBL_RECORD_SIZE);
-- 
1.6.3.3







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