Patch "usb: xhci-mem: use passed in GFP flags instead of GFP_KERNEL" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    usb: xhci-mem: use passed in GFP flags instead of GFP_KERNEL

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     usb-xhci-mem-use-passed-in-gfp-flags-instead-of-gfp_kernel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c95a9f83711bf53faeb4ed9bbb63a3f065613dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:33:17 +0300
Subject: usb: xhci-mem: use passed in GFP flags instead of GFP_KERNEL

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit c95a9f83711bf53faeb4ed9bbb63a3f065613dfb upstream.

We normally use the passed in gfp flags for allocations, it's just these
two which were missed.

Fixes: 22d45f01a836 ("usb/xhci: replace pci_*_consistent() with dma_*_coherent()")
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
@@ -2418,7 +2418,7 @@ int xhci_mem_init(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
 	 * "physically contiguous and 64-byte (cache line) aligned".
 	 */
 	xhci->dcbaa = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, sizeof(*xhci->dcbaa), &dma,
-			GFP_KERNEL);
+			flags);
 	if (!xhci->dcbaa)
 		goto fail;
 	memset(xhci->dcbaa, 0, sizeof *(xhci->dcbaa));
@@ -2514,7 +2514,7 @@ int xhci_mem_init(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
 
 	xhci->erst.entries = dma_alloc_coherent(dev,
 			sizeof(struct xhci_erst_entry) * ERST_NUM_SEGS, &dma,
-			GFP_KERNEL);
+			flags);
 	if (!xhci->erst.entries)
 		goto fail;
 	xhci_dbg_trace(xhci, trace_xhci_dbg_init,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/usb-xhci-mem-use-passed-in-gfp-flags-instead-of-gfp_kernel.patch