Re: [PATCH 1/1] hv: Use only one txf buffer per channel and kmallocon initialize

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Mon Dec 13 2010 - 16:28:39 EST


On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Hank Janssen wrote:

> Correct issue with not checking kmalloc return value.
> This fix now only uses one receive buffer for all hv_utils
> channels, and will do only one kmalloc on init and will return
> with a -ENOMEM if kmalloc fails on initialize.
>
> And properly clean up memory on failure.
>
> Thanks to Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx> for pointing this out.
> And thanks to Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and Ky Srinivasan
> <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx> for suggesting a better implementation of
> my original patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

I can't spot any problems with these changes now, so feel free to add
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
if you like.


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