Re: REPOST: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.7)

[James Bottomley]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 23:10 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
> +       ibft_device = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!ibft_device)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       memcpy(ibft_device, hdr, len);

This piece looks a bit odd.  you're making ibft_device an exact
duplicate of ibft_addr (which is reserved in bootmem and lives as long
as the kernel does).  I can't seem to find anywhere you actually modify
ibft_device, so why not just use the original ibft_addr here instead of
making a copy?

James


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