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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:32:01 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: keucr: check kmalloc() return value
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:56:43PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> kmalloc() may fail, if so return error code.
> Also don't alloc 16 bytes from the heap, use stack instead.

Nope, you can't do that for USB drivers, sorry.  Please read the
documentation, it states this very clearly.

thanks,

greg k-h