Unchecked memory allocations in Intel driver

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:27:51 +0100, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Found this going over intel_bios.c and cross comparing it with the
> Intel/IMG driver intel_bios.c
> 
>         temp_mode = kzalloc(sizeof(*temp_mode), GFP_KERNEL);

This object is about 216 bytes long; would it be reasonable to allocate
it on the stack? Or is that pushing stack allocations too far?

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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