Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] staging: rtl8188eu: kzalloc replaced by kmalloc

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Feb 07 2016 - 21:55:44 EST


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:17:50PM +0700, Ivan Safonov wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 04:43 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 02:11:08PM +0700, Ivan Safonov wrote:
> >>_rtl88e_fill_dummy fills the array elemets with zeros if necessary.
> >>
> >_rtl88e_fill_dummy() fills the last sizeof(u32) or whatever so the code
> >is aligned but it doesn't fill up to the end of FW_8188E_SIZE. Why do
> >we even allocate that much memory. Why don't we just allocate:
> >
> > pfwdata = kmalloc(round_up(fwsize, sizeof(u32)), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> >regards,
> >dan carpenter
>
> Yes, it will save about 2 KB. I will correct it in the next patch.

Please send a v3 series with this fixed up.

Also, please properly thread your patches so they all show up grouped
together.

thanks,

greg k-h