From: FUJITA Tomonori blk_rq_map_kern can handle the stack buffers correctly (avoid DMA from/to the stack buffers by using the bounce buffer) so we don't need to complicate the code by allocating just 8 bytes. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/scsi/sr.c | 20 +++++--------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/sr.c~scsi-sr-avoids-useless-buffer-allocation drivers/scsi/sr.c --- a/drivers/scsi/sr.c~scsi-sr-avoids-useless-buffer-allocation +++ a/drivers/scsi/sr.c @@ -670,24 +670,20 @@ fail: static void get_sectorsize(struct scsi_cd *cd) { unsigned char cmd[10]; - unsigned char *buffer; + unsigned char buffer[8]; int the_result, retries = 3; int sector_size; struct request_queue *queue; - buffer = kmalloc(512, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); - if (!buffer) - goto Enomem; - do { cmd[0] = READ_CAPACITY; memset((void *) &cmd[1], 0, 9); - memset(buffer, 0, 8); + memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer)); /* Do the command and wait.. */ the_result = scsi_execute_req(cd->device, cmd, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, - buffer, 8, NULL, SR_TIMEOUT, - MAX_RETRIES); + buffer, sizeof(buffer), NULL, + SR_TIMEOUT, MAX_RETRIES); retries--; @@ -742,14 +738,8 @@ static void get_sectorsize(struct scsi_c queue = cd->device->request_queue; blk_queue_hardsect_size(queue, sector_size); -out: - kfree(buffer); - return; -Enomem: - cd->capacity = 0x1fffff; - cd->device->sector_size = 2048; /* A guess, just in case */ - goto out; + return; } static void get_capabilities(struct scsi_cd *cd) _