linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/14] staging: lustre: lnet-route: use kmalloc for small allocation

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Message-ID: <151546077849.9776.5734351152485517837.stgit@noble>
Date:   Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:19:38 +1100
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        lustre <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: [PATCH 09/14] staging: lustre: lnet-route: use kmalloc for small
 allocation

This allocation is reasonably small.
As the function is called "*_locked", it might not be safe
to perform a GFP_KERNEL allocation, so be safe and
use GFP_NOFS.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/router.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/router.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/router.c
index 409244e57a31..476d6d296037 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/router.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/router.c
@@ -884,8 +884,7 @@ lnet_destroy_rc_data(struct lnet_rc_data *rcd)
 		lnet_net_unlock(cpt);
 	}
 
-	if (rcd->rcd_pinginfo)
-		LIBCFS_FREE(rcd->rcd_pinginfo, LNET_PINGINFO_SIZE);
+	kfree(rcd->rcd_pinginfo);
 
 	kfree(rcd);
 }
@@ -908,7 +907,7 @@ lnet_create_rc_data_locked(struct lnet_peer *gateway)
 	LNetInvalidateMDHandle(&rcd->rcd_mdh);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rcd->rcd_list);
 
-	LIBCFS_ALLOC(pi, LNET_PINGINFO_SIZE);
+	pi = kzalloc(LNET_PINGINFO_SIZE, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!pi)
 		goto out;