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>
mariux64 · Sep 21, 2010 · a77f5db · a77f5db
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commit a77f5db
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/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;
 }