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ethtool: Allocate register dump buffer with vmalloc()

Some NICs have huge register files which exceed the maximum heap
allocation size.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1 mainītis faili ar 2 papildinājumiem un 2 dzēšanām
  1. 2 2
      net/core/ethtool.c

+ 2 - 2
net/core/ethtool.c

@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr)
 	if (regs.len > reglen)
 		regs.len = reglen;
 
-	regbuf = kmalloc(reglen, GFP_USER);
+	regbuf = vmalloc(reglen);
 	if (!regbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr)
 	ret = 0;
 
  out:
-	kfree(regbuf);
+	vfree(regbuf);
 	return ret;
 }