Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: get memory from kernel allocators instead of big static buffer

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 05:14:52PM +0200, Sergio Paracuellos wrote:
> This patch fix the following sparse warnings in prism2fw.c:
> warning: memset with byte count of 120000
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c | 11 ++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
> index 96aa211..7e33048 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct imgchunk {
>  
>  /* Data records */
>  static unsigned int ns3data;
> -static struct s3datarec s3data[S3DATA_MAX];
> +static struct s3datarec *s3data;
>  
>  /* Plug records */
>  static unsigned int ns3plug;
> @@ -248,7 +248,12 @@ static int prism2_fwapply(const struct ihex_binrec *rfptr,
>  
>  	/* Initialize the data structures */
>  	ns3data = 0;
> -	memset(s3data, 0, sizeof(s3data));
> +	s3data = kcalloc(S3DATA_MAX, sizeof(*s3data), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (unlikely(!s3data)) {

Unless you can measure the speed difference, NEVER use likely or
unlikely in kernel code.  The CPU and compiler knows better than you do
what is going to happen, and optimizes it.  Especially for allocating
memory, that is a very common pattern and it knows what to do here.

Please remove this and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h