Despite the indicated intention in comment, the kmalloc() call was not
explicitly requesting memory from ZONE_DMA.

Signed-off-by: Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
index 38fa824..771794d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
@@ -1343,7 +1343,8 @@ static int __devinit rtl8187_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
 	priv->is_rtl8187b = (id->driver_info == DEVICE_RTL8187B);
 
 	/* allocate "DMA aware" buffer for register accesses */
-	priv->io_dmabuf = kmalloc(sizeof(*priv->io_dmabuf), GFP_KERNEL);
+	priv->io_dmabuf = kmalloc(sizeof(*priv->io_dmabuf),
+				  GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!priv->io_dmabuf) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_free_dev;
-- 
1.7.1

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