On 8/4/05, Saripalli, Venkata Ramanamurthy (STSD) <saripalli@xxxxxx> wrote: > Patch 1 of 2 > > This patch fixes the "#error this is too much stack" in 2.6 kernel. > Using kmalloc to allocate memory to ulFibreFrame. > [snip] > if( fchs->pl[0] == ELS_LILP_FRAME) > { > + kfree(ulFibreFrame); > return 1; // found the LILP frame! > } > else > { > + kfree(ulFibreFrame); > // keep looking... > } The first thing you do in either branch is to call kfree(ulFibreFrame); , so instead of having the call in both branches you might as well just have one call before the if(). Ohh and this looks like it could do with a CodingStyle cleanup as well. kfree(ulFibreFrame); if (fchs->pl[0] == ELS_LILP_FRAME) return 1; /* found the LILP frame! */ /* keep looking */ -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html