Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: xen-pciback: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in pcistub_probe | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:09:31 -0400 |
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On 04/09/2018 11:03 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > pcistub_probe() is never called in atomic context. > This function is only set as ".probe" in struct pci_driver. > > Despite never getting called from atomic context, > pcistub_probe() calls kmalloc() 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> >
Applied the series and the extra patch to for-linus-4.17
-boris
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