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Date:   Fri, 3 Aug 2018 21:57:56 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
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        gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: cavium: nitrox: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with
 GFP_KERNEL in crypto_alloc_context()
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:14:26PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> crypto_alloc_context() is only called by nitrox_skcipher_init(), which is
> never called in atomic context.
> 
> crypto_alloc_context() calls dma_pool_alloc() 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.
> I also manually check the kernel code before reporting it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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