netdev - [PATCH net-next 12/15] 6lowpan: make memory allocation atomic during 6lowpan header creation

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Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:09:54 -0400
From:	Tony Cheneau <tony.cheneau@...esiak.org>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>,
	Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 12/15] 6lowpan: make memory allocation atomic during 6lowpan header creation

This is prevent various crashes when using the serial driver (not yet in
the tree).

Signed-off-by: Tony Cheneau <tony.cheneau@...esiak.org>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index 9c7ac2e..70ff171 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ static int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		/* TODO:
 		 * if this package isn't ipv6 one, where should it be routed?
 		 */
-	head = kzalloc(100, GFP_KERNEL);
+	head = kzalloc(100, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (head == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
1.7.8.6

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