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

[David Miller]

From: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:26:03 -0800

> Description: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0 in function aligned_kmalloc(), in file drivers/atm/firestream.c. Also, a negative value for alignment does not make sense. Check for negative value too.
> The function prototype is:
> 		static void __devinit *aligned_kmalloc (int size, gfp_t flags, int alignment).
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@xxxxxxxxx>

There is only one call to aligned_kmalloc() and it passes in
0x10 as the alignment argument.  Therefore all of this checking
is completely pointless.
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