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authorJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>2018-04-10 10:31:46 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-04-23 10:57:06 +0200
commit13eac05b0581e6f9f5aec93a8ab64c83d7c311bf (patch)
tree1d4fc86945ab00c78c598cf7930d30555ca7c53f /drivers/tty/ipwireless
parentserial/aspeed-vuart: Implement quick throttle mechanism (diff)
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tty: ipwireless: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ipwireless_network_create
ipwireless_network_create() is never called in atomic context. The call chain ending up at ipwireless_network_create() is: [1] ipwireless_network_create() <- config_ipwireless() <- ipwireless_attach() ipwireless_attach() is only set as ".probe" in struct pcmcia_driver. Despite never getting called from atomic context, ipwireless_network_create() calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which does not sleep for allocation. GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation. This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself. And I also manually check it. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/ipwireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c
index 695439c03147..cf20616340a1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ void ipwireless_network_packet_received(struct ipw_network *network,
struct ipw_network *ipwireless_network_create(struct ipw_hardware *hw)
{
struct ipw_network *network =
- kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipw_network), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipw_network), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!network)
return NULL;