[PATCH -mm] atmel_serial: Fix broken RX buffer allocation

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

Introduced by atmel_serial-split-the-interrupt-handler.patch.

Thanks to michael <trimarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for spotting it.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
It was surprisingly difficult to actually provoke a crash without this
patch, but the system did start to behave rather funny after
transferring a lot of data.

 drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c
index 62654ab..477950f 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -1477,7 +1477,8 @@ static int __devinit atmel_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	if (!atmel_use_dma_rx(&port->uart)) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		data = kmalloc(ATMEL_SERIAL_RINGSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+		data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct atmel_uart_char)
+				* ATMEL_SERIAL_RINGSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!data)
 			goto err_alloc_ring;
 		port->rx_ring.buf = data;
-- 
1.5.3.8

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