linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 017/142] vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

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Message-Id: <9100d1654d2c3c2980401f472326f83ea0e90c0d.1456308281.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:03:32 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Hon Ching \\(Vicky\\) Lo" <honclo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 017/142] vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

From: "Hon Ching \\(Vicky\\) Lo" <honclo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

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

===============

commit 60ecd86c4d985750efa0ea3d8610972b09951715 upstream.

At ibm vtpm initialzation, tpm_ibmvtpm_probe() registers its interrupt
handler, ibmvtpm_interrupt, which calls ibmvtpm_crq_process to allocate
memory for rtce buffer.  The current code uses 'GFP_KERNEL' as the
type of kernel memory allocation, which resulted a warning at
kernel/lockdep.c.  This patch uses 'GFP_ATOMIC' instead so that the
allocation is high-priority and does not sleep.

Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <honclo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
index a6524c3efdf7..ce854bbd33ef 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static void ibmvtpm_crq_process(struct ibmvtpm_crq *crq,
 			}
 			ibmvtpm->rtce_size = be16_to_cpu(crq->len);
 			ibmvtpm->rtce_buf = kmalloc(ibmvtpm->rtce_size,
-						    GFP_KERNEL);
+						    GFP_ATOMIC);
 			if (!ibmvtpm->rtce_buf) {
 				dev_err(ibmvtpm->dev, "Failed to allocate memory for rtce buffer\n");
 				return;
-- 
2.7.1