mac80211: don't kmalloc 16 bytes
Since this small buffer isn't used for DMA,
we can simply allocate it on the stack, it
just needs to be 16 bytes of which only 8
will be used for WEP40 keys.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/wep.c b/net/mac80211/wep.c
index f27484c..2ff6d1e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wep.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wep.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
struct ieee80211_key *key)
{
u32 klen;
- u8 *rc4key;
+ u8 rc4key[3 + WLAN_KEY_LEN_WEP104];
u8 keyidx;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
unsigned int hdrlen;
@@ -245,10 +245,6 @@
klen = 3 + key->conf.keylen;
- rc4key = kmalloc(klen, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!rc4key)
- return -1;
-
/* Prepend 24-bit IV to RC4 key */
memcpy(rc4key, skb->data + hdrlen, 3);
@@ -260,8 +256,6 @@
len))
ret = -1;
- kfree(rc4key);
-
/* Trim ICV */
skb_trim(skb, skb->len - WEP_ICV_LEN);
