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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: tipc: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in
 tipc_mon_create
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>, <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>,
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From:   Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:11:40 +0800
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On 04/10/2018 09:17 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> tipc_mon_create() is never called in atomic context.
> 
> The call chain ending up at dn_route_init() is:

Sorry, I don't think there is any relationship between the following
call chain with dn_route_init().

> [1] tipc_mon_create() <- tipc_enable_bearer() <- tipc_nl_bearer_enable()
> tipc_nl_bearer_enable() calls rtnl_lock(), which indicates this function
> is not called in atomic context.
> 
> Despite never getting called from atomic context,
> tipc_mon_create() calls kzalloc() 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.

s/sucessful/successful

> 
> 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 <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>> ---
> v2:
> * Modify the description of GFP_ATOMIC in v1.
>   Thank Eric for good advice.
> ---
>  net/tipc/monitor.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/tipc/monitor.c b/net/tipc/monitor.c
> index 9e109bb..9714d80 100644
> --- a/net/tipc/monitor.c
> +++ b/net/tipc/monitor.c
> @@ -604,9 +604,9 @@ int tipc_mon_create(struct net *net, int bearer_id)
>  	if (tn->monitors[bearer_id])
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	mon = kzalloc(sizeof(*mon), GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	self = kzalloc(sizeof(*self), GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	dom = kzalloc(sizeof(*dom), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	mon = kzalloc(sizeof(*mon), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	self = kzalloc(sizeof(*self), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	dom = kzalloc(sizeof(*dom), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!mon || !self || !dom) {
>  		kfree(mon);
>  		kfree(self);
>