linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: ipwireless: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ipwireless_network

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:09:45 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, johannes.berg@...el.com, jikos@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        Jiri Slaby <JSlaby@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: ipwireless: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in
 ipwireless_network_create

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:31:46PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> ipwireless_network_create() is never called in atomic context.
> 
> The call chain ending up at ipwireless_network_create() is:
> [1] ipwireless_network_create() <- config_ipwireless() <- 
> 	ipwireless_attach()
> ipwireless_attach() is only set as ".probe" in struct pcmcia_driver.
> 
> Despite never getting called from atomic context,
> ipwireless_network_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.
> 
> 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@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>

We don't have any other patches queued for this driver so it would be
best if this patch goes via net or Greg's tree.