[PATCH][Resend] Fix loading of large firmware files

[Thomas Hellstrom]

Firmware loading has a memory allocation complexity of
O(size * size), which makes loads of very large firmware files
stall and fail. This patch fixes that problem by making the
allocation complexity O(size * ln(size)).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 4a1b9bf..4215cbf 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -206,7 +206,9 @@ fw_realloc_buffer(struct firmware_priv *
 	if (min_size <= fw_priv->alloc_size)
 		return 0;
 
-	new_size = ALIGN(min_size, PAGE_SIZE);
+	new_size = 2 * new_size;
+	new_size = (min_size > new_size) ? min_size : new_size;
+	new_size = ALIGN(new_size, PAGE_SIZE);
 	new_data = vmalloc(new_size);
 	if (!new_data) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: unable to alloc buffer\n", __FUNCTION__);
-- 
1.4.1



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