linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netxen: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in netxen_nic_pci_mem_access

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:08:10 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, manish.chopra@...ium.com,
        rahul.verma@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in
 netxen_nic_pci_mem_access_direct

We should probably add a might_sleep() to ioremap() to prevent these
bugs in the future.

This bug is eight years old.  You can report it, but it's going to hard
to get anyone to fix it.  I sometimes ignore ancient bugs.  On the other
hand, netxen is fairly well supported so it doesn't hurt to try.

I try to report bugs as soon as they are introduced.  I report it to
the author and CC the relevant list.  If people don't respond to my
email after a month then I complain again.

regards,
dan carpenter