From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
mlxsw <mlxsw@mellanox.com>,
Vladyslav Tarasiuk <vladyslavt@mellanox.com>,
linux-netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Aya Levin <ayal@mellanox.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlxfw: Fix out-of-memory error in mfa2 flash burning
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 09:16:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191226091655.GA35898@splinter> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191226084156.9561-1-leon@kernel.org>
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:41:56AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Vladyslav Tarasiuk <vladyslavt@mellanox.com>
>
> The burning process requires to perform internal allocations of large
> chunks of memory. This memory doesn't need to be contiguous and can be
> safely allocated by vzalloc() instead of kzalloc(). This patch changes
> such allocation to avoid possible out-of-memory failure.
>
> Fixes: 410ed13cae39 ("Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process")
> Signed-off-by: Vladyslav Tarasiuk <vladyslavt@mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aya Levin <ayal@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-26 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-26 8:41 [PATCH net] net/mlxfw: Fix out-of-memory error in mfa2 flash burning Leon Romanovsky
2019-12-26 9:16 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2019-12-26 19:50 ` David Miller
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