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DateThu, 4 Jan 2007 09:29:55 +0200
From"Pekka Enberg" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.
On 12/31/06, Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com> wrote:
> Looking at aligned_kmalloc() it seems to be pretty badly broken -- its fallback
> if it gets a non-aligned buffer is to just try a larger size which doesn't
> necessarily fix the problem.  It looks like explicitly aligning the buffer
> is a better solution.

Shouldn't we be using dma_alloc_*() here instead of abusing kmalloc()?
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