This patch is a cleanup which replaces rtw_malloc(wep_total_len) with kzalloc() and removes the memset().
The rtw_malloc() does GFP_ATOMIC allocations when in_atomic() is true. But as the comments for in_atomic() describe, the in_atomic() check should not be used in driver code. The in_atomic() check is not accurate when preempt is disabled. In this code we are not in IRQ context and we are not holding any spin_locks so GFP_KERNEL is safe. Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.ke...@gmail.com> ---- changes in v2: Replace rtw_zmalloc with kzalloc changes in v3: Add proper changelog --- --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index ea50ec424..e050f20 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -477,14 +477,12 @@ static int wpa_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, struct ieee_param *param, if (wep_key_len > 0) { wep_key_len = wep_key_len <= 5 ? 5 : 13; wep_total_len = wep_key_len + FIELD_OFFSET(struct ndis_802_11_wep, KeyMaterial); - pwep = rtw_malloc(wep_total_len); + pwep = kzalloc(wep_total_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (pwep == NULL) { RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_ioctl_os_c, _drv_err_, (" wpa_set_encryption: pwep allocate fail !!!\n")); goto exit; } - memset(pwep, 0, wep_total_len); - pwep->KeyLength = wep_key_len; pwep->Length = wep_total_len; @@ -2142,12 +2140,10 @@ static int rtw_wx_set_enc_ext(struct net_device *dev, int ret = 0; param_len = sizeof(struct ieee_param) + pext->key_len; - param = rtw_malloc(param_len); + param = kzalloc(param_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (param == NULL) return -1; - memset(param, 0, param_len); - param->cmd = IEEE_CMD_SET_ENCRYPTION; memset(param->sta_addr, 0xff, ETH_ALEN); @@ -3513,14 +3509,12 @@ static int rtw_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, struct ieee_param *param, if (wep_key_len > 0) { wep_key_len = wep_key_len <= 5 ? 5 : 13; wep_total_len = wep_key_len + FIELD_OFFSET(struct ndis_802_11_wep, KeyMaterial); - pwep = rtw_malloc(wep_total_len); + pwep = kzalloc(wep_total_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (pwep == NULL) { DBG_871X(" r871x_set_encryption: pwep allocate fail !!!\n"); goto exit; } - memset(pwep, 0, wep_total_len); - pwep->KeyLength = wep_key_len; pwep->Length = wep_total_len; -- 2.7.4