From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:25:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211105132551.GB2001@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211101191847.6749-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 08:18:47PM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> Use the GFP_ATOMIC flag of kzalloc() with two memory allocation in
> report_del_sta_event(). This function is called while holding spinlocks,
> therefore it is not allowed to sleep. With the GFP_ATOMIC type flag, the
> allocation is high priority and must not sleep.
>
> This issue is detected by Smatch which emits the following warning:
> "drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c:6848 report_del_sta_event()
> warn: sleeping in atomic context".
>
> After the change, the post-commit hook output the following message:
> "CHECK: Prefer kzalloc(sizeof(*pcmd_obj)...) over
> kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj)...)".
>
> According to the above "CHECK", use the preferred style in the first
> kzalloc().
>
> Fixes: 79f712ea994d ("staging: r8188eu: Remove wrappers for kalloc() and kzalloc()")
This is not the correct Fixes tag. The original allocation wrappers
checked in_interrupt() they did not check in_atomic() so they had same
bug. The correct tag is:
Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver")
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-05 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-01 19:18 [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-11-05 13:25 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-11-05 15:18 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-11-05 15:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-11-05 16:05 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-11-07 11:43 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-11-07 12:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-07 13:15 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-11-07 13:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-07 14:03 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-11-07 14:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-07 14:30 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
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