From: Oliver Neukum Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:24:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [PATCH] USB: optimise devio.c::usbdev_read X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~1176^2~79 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8781ba0aa9d9dd2870b75dba8d9a47e0f5a3f96a;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] USB: optimise devio.c::usbdev_read this is a small optimisation. It is ridiculous to do a kmalloc for 18 bytes. This puts it onto the stack. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c index 2b68998fe4..d01bd77e7b 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c @@ -134,26 +134,21 @@ static ssize_t usbdev_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes, l } if (pos < sizeof(struct usb_device_descriptor)) { - struct usb_device_descriptor *desc = kmalloc(sizeof(*desc), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!desc) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto err; - } - memcpy(desc, &dev->descriptor, sizeof(dev->descriptor)); - le16_to_cpus(&desc->bcdUSB); - le16_to_cpus(&desc->idVendor); - le16_to_cpus(&desc->idProduct); - le16_to_cpus(&desc->bcdDevice); + struct usb_device_descriptor temp_desc ; /* 18 bytes - fits on the stack */ + + memcpy(&temp_desc, &dev->descriptor, sizeof(dev->descriptor)); + le16_to_cpus(&temp_desc->bcdUSB); + le16_to_cpus(&temp_desc->idVendor); + le16_to_cpus(&temp_desc->idProduct); + le16_to_cpus(&temp_desc->bcdDevice); len = sizeof(struct usb_device_descriptor) - pos; if (len > nbytes) len = nbytes; - if (copy_to_user(buf, ((char *)desc) + pos, len)) { - kfree(desc); + if (copy_to_user(buf, ((char *)&temp_desc) + pos, len)) { ret = -EFAULT; goto err; } - kfree(desc); *ppos += len; buf += len;