lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:44:04 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>, Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:08 +0800, Cong Wang wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 12:10 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > I did this , just take it ;) > > Do we have to pass gfp to ->ndo_netpoll_setup() too? It seems no, so far > I don't think we have to do that. > > Thanks. > It is needed. ->ndo_netpoll_setup() is called from __netpoll_setup() So it would make no sense to allow GFP_KERNEL allocations in ndo_netpoll_setup() hgandlers if we called __netpoll_setup() with GFP_ATOMIC gfp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists