2018-07-27 08:31:01

by Jia-Ju Bai

Subject: [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe()

nv_probe() is never called in atomic context.
It calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
GFP_ATOMIC 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/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
index 66c665d0b926..a6f1a5a3daea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
@@ -5775,7 +5775,7 @@ static int nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
(np->rx_ring_size +
np->tx_ring_size),
&np->ring_addr,
- GFP_ATOMIC);
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!np->rx_ring.orig)
goto out_unmap;
np->tx_ring.orig = &np->rx_ring.orig[np->rx_ring_size];
@@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@ static int nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
sizeof(struct ring_desc_ex) *
(np->rx_ring_size +
np->tx_ring_size),
- &np->ring_addr, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ &np->ring_addr, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!np->rx_ring.ex)
goto out_unmap;
np->tx_ring.ex = &np->rx_ring.ex[np->rx_ring_size];
--
2.17.0

2018-07-27 21:13:55

by David Miller

Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe()

From: Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:29:31 +0800

> nv_probe() is never called in atomic context.
> It calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC 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]>

Applied.