| From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 004/136] misc: ibmvmc: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:00:13 +0000 |
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From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
[ Upstream commit 97b715b62e5b4c6edb75d023f556fd09a46cb4e1 ]
The function alloc_dma_buffer() is called from ibmvmc_add_buffer(), in which a spin lock be held here, so we should use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held.
Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> --- drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c index fb83d1375638..8f82bb9d11e2 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ static void *alloc_dma_buffer(struct vio_dev *vdev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle) { /* allocate memory */ - void *buffer = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + void *buffer = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!buffer) { *dma_handle = 0; -- 2.17.1
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