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* [PATCH] net: tipc: name_table: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in tipc_nametbl_init()
@ 2018-07-27  9:28 Jia-Ju Bai
  2018-07-27 21:13 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jia-Ju Bai @ 2018-07-27  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jon.maloy, ying.xue, davem
  Cc: netdev, tipc-discussion, linux-kernel, Jia-Ju Bai

tipc_nametbl_init() is never called in atomic context.
It calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
 net/tipc/name_table.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/name_table.c b/net/tipc/name_table.c
index dd1c4fa2eb78..960aa21444cf 100644
--- a/net/tipc/name_table.c
+++ b/net/tipc/name_table.c
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ int tipc_nametbl_init(struct net *net)
 	struct name_table *nt;
 	int i;
 
-	nt = kzalloc(sizeof(*nt), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	nt = kzalloc(sizeof(*nt), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nt)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.17.0

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* Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: name_table: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in tipc_nametbl_init()
  2018-07-27  9:28 [PATCH] net: tipc: name_table: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in tipc_nametbl_init() Jia-Ju Bai
@ 2018-07-27 21:13 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2018-07-27 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: baijiaju1990; +Cc: jon.maloy, ying.xue, netdev, tipc-discussion, linux-kernel

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:28:25 +0800

> tipc_nametbl_init() is never called in atomic context.
> It calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>

Applied.

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