From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: net: wireless: b43legacy: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in dma_tx_fragment Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20180430102720.D5FC760710@smtp.codeaurora.org> References: <1523368459-32128-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jia-Ju Bai To: Jia-Ju Bai Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1523368459-32128-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > dma_tx_fragment() is never called in atomic context. > > dma_tx_fragment() is only called by b43legacy_dma_tx(), which is > only called by b43legacy_tx_work(). > b43legacy_tx_work() is only set a parameter of INIT_WORK() in > b43legacy_wireless_init(). > > Despite never getting called from atomic context, > dma_tx_fragment() calls alloc_skb() 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 Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. 6e1d8d1470b2 net: wireless: b43legacy: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in dma_tx_fragment -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10333217/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches