Issue

ib_mthca, the driver for Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards based on the Mellanox Technologies MT25408 InfiniHost III Lx HCA integrated circuit device, uses kmalloc() to allocate large bitmasks. This ensures allocated memory is a contiguous physical block, as is required by DMA devices such as these HCA cards.

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the largest allowed kmalloc() is ...