On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:56:43PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > kmalloc() may fail, if so return error code. > Also don't alloc 16 bytes from the heap, use stack instead. I don't have ENE_SendScsiCmd() in my repo, but I think it's a DMA function. You're not supposed to use stack memory for DMA transfers. This is documented in: Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt So the original code is correct here (except that there is no error handling). regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html