Re: [PATCH net] atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

[David Miller]

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:11:27 +0100

>> >>  	if (unlikely(!ring_header->desc)) {
>> >> -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pci_alloc_consistend failed\n");
>> >> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get memory for DMA buffer\n");
>> >>  		goto err_nomem;
>> >>  	}
>> >>  	memset(ring_header->desc, 0, ring_header->size);
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > So this memset() will really require a different patch to get removed ?
>> > 
>> > Sigh, not sure why I review patches.
>> 
>> Agreed, please use dma_zalloc_coherent() and kill that memset().
> 
> Ok, updated. I'll also add cc: stable, because it makes notebooks with
> affected chipset unusable.

Networking patches do not use CC: stable, instead you simply ask me
to queue it up and then I batch submit networking fixes to -stable
periodically myself.
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