2018-01-26 01:52:07

by Jia-Ju Bai

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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] atm: fore200e: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in fore200e_open

After checking all possible call chains to fore200e_open here,
my tool finds that fore200e_open is never called in atomic context.
And fore200e_open calls mutex_lock which can sleep later,
thus it is supposed fore200e_open can call functions which may sleep.
Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it 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 <[email protected]>
---
drivers/atm/fore200e.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
index 6ebc4e4..bdffb85 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
@@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ int bsq_audit(int where, struct host_bsq* bsq, int scheme, int magn)

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fore200e->q_lock, flags);

- fore200e_vcc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fore200e_vcc), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ fore200e_vcc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fore200e_vcc), GFP_KERNEL);
if (fore200e_vcc == NULL) {
vc_map->vcc = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
--
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