brcmfmac: use vmalloc to allocate mem for the firmware

The firmware is more than 300KB big and you should not use kmalloc for
such big allocations. This allocation with kmalloc failed on my mips
based device (BCM47186).

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Hauke Mehrtens 2012-05-18 20:22:53 +02:00 коммит произвёл John W. Linville
Родитель 885ba1da68
Коммит edb9bc9a1e
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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include <linux/usb.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <net/cfg80211.h>
#include <defs.h>
@ -1239,7 +1240,7 @@ static int brcmf_usb_get_fw(struct brcmf_usbdev_info *devinfo)
return -EINVAL;
}
devinfo->image = kmalloc(fw->size, GFP_ATOMIC); /* plus nvram */
devinfo->image = vmalloc(fw->size); /* plus nvram */
if (!devinfo->image)
return -ENOMEM;
@ -1602,7 +1603,7 @@ static struct usb_driver brcmf_usbdrvr = {
void brcmf_usb_exit(void)
{
usb_deregister(&brcmf_usbdrvr);
kfree(g_image.data);
vfree(g_image.data);
g_image.data = NULL;
g_image.len = 0;
}