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Date:   Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:11:58 -0500
From:   Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] infiniband: i40iw: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with
 GFP_KERNEL in i40iw_l2param_change
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:33:06PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> i40iw_l2param_change() is never called in atomic context.
> 
> i40iw_make_listen_node() is only set as ".l2_param_change" 
> in struct i40e_client_ops, and this function pointer is not called 
> in atomic context.
> 
> Despite never getting called from atomic context,
> i40iw_l2param_change() 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.
> 
> 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>
> ---
>

Acked-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>