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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
index 1d67ecf..3e35247 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
@@ -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 @@
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 @@
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;
}