From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42576 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751930AbdJSNQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:16:04 -0400 Subject: Patch "xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: anoob.soman@citrix.com, alexander.levin@verizon.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:14:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1508418885164232@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash 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: xen-netback-use-gfp_atomic-to-allocate-hash.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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017 From: Anoob Soman Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:50:20 +0000 Subject: xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash From: Anoob Soman [ Upstream commit 9f674e48c13dcbc31ac903433727837795b81efe ] Allocation of new_hash, inside xenvif_new_hash(), always happen in softirq context, so use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL for new hash allocation. Signed-off-by: Anoob Soman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void xenvif_add_hash(struct xenvi unsigned long flags; bool found; - new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL); + new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!new) return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anoob.soman@citrix.com are queue-4.9/xen-netback-use-gfp_atomic-to-allocate-hash.patch