2018-04-10 13:22:14

by Jia-Ju Bai

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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ntb: ntb_transport: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ntb_transport_setup_qp_mw

ntb_transport_setup_qp_mw() is never called in atomic context.

ntb_transport_setup_qp_mw() is only called by ntb_transport_link_work(),
which is set as a parameter of INIT_DELAYED_WORK()
in ntb_transport_probe().

Despite never getting called from atomic context,
ntb_transport_setup_qp_mw() calls kzalloc_node() with GFP_ATOMIC,
which does not sleep for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL,
which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
And I also manually check it.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
---
drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
index f58d8e3..08c9157 100644
--- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ static int ntb_transport_setup_qp_mw(struct ntb_transport_ctx *nt,
*/
node = dev_to_node(&ndev->dev);
for (i = qp->rx_alloc_entry; i < qp->rx_max_entry; i++) {
- entry = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC, node);
+ entry = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL, node);
if (!entry)
return -ENOMEM;

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