patch "staging: wilc1000: Avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation from atomic context." added to staging-next

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    staging: wilc1000: Avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation from atomic context.

to my staging git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


From ae26aa844679cdf660e12c7055f958cb90889eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 21:58:43 +0900
Subject: staging: wilc1000: Avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation from atomic context.

Since wilc_set_multicast_list() is called with dev->addr_list_lock
spinlock held, we can't use GFP_KERNEL memory allocation.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Fixes: e624c58cf8eb ("staging: wilc1000: refactor code to avoid use of wilc_set_multicast_list global")
Cc: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Adham Abozaeid <adham.abozaeid@microchip.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c
index 1787154ee088..ba78c08a17f1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static void wilc_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *dev)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	mc_list = kmalloc_array(dev->mc.count, ETH_ALEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+	mc_list = kmalloc_array(dev->mc.count, ETH_ALEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!mc_list)
 		return;
 
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