Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] bfa: allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in spinlock context

[Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>]

Please ignore this patch, it will resend a correct version of it.

On 18.04.2014 00:25, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> bfa_fcb_pbc_vport_create() is called only from bfa_fcs_pbc_vport_init(),
> that is called only from bfad_drv_start() with bfad_lock spinlock held.
> So the patch replaces GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC to avoid
> sleeping in atomic spinlock context.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c
> index cc0fbcdc5192..8f46d1b72fb8 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c
> @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ bfad_vport_create(struct bfad_s *bfad, u16 vf_id,
>  	unsigned long	flags;
>  	struct completion fcomp;
>  
> -	vport = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bfad_vport_s), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	vport = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bfad_vport_s), GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (!vport) {
>  		rc = BFA_STATUS_ENOMEM;
>  		goto ext;