linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 118/329] mac80211: fix calling sleeping function in atomic context

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 12:00:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 118/329] mac80211: fix calling sleeping function in atomic context

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit 95f3ce6a77893ac828ba841df44421620de4314b ]

sta_info_alloc can be called from atomic paths (such as RX path)
so we need to call pcpu_alloc with the correct gfp.

Fixes: c9c5962b56c1 ("mac80211: enable collecting station statistics per-CPU")
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ struct sta_info *sta_info_alloc(struct i
 
 	if (ieee80211_hw_check(hw, USES_RSS)) {
 		sta->pcpu_rx_stats =
-			alloc_percpu(struct ieee80211_sta_rx_stats);
+			alloc_percpu_gfp(struct ieee80211_sta_rx_stats, gfp);
 		if (!sta->pcpu_rx_stats)
 			goto free;
 	}