linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] staging: rtl8192u: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ieee80211_softmac

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Message-Id: <1523363063-30950-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:24:23 +0800
From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        johannes.berg@...el.com, Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn,
        stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] staging: rtl8192u: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ieee80211_softmac_init

ieee80211_softmac_init() is never called in atomic context.

The call chains ending up at ieee80211_softmac_init() is:
[1] ieee80211_softmac_init() <- alloc_ieee80211_rsl() <-
    rtl8192_usb_probe()

rtl8192_usb_probe() is set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver.

Despite never getting called from atomic context,
ieee80211_softmac_init() calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC,
which does not sleep for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL,
which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
And I also manually check it.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
index fe6f38b..cb4a2ad 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
@@ -2682,7 +2682,7 @@ void ieee80211_softmac_init(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)
 	for(i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
 	  ieee->seq_ctrl[i] = 0;
 	}
-	ieee->pDot11dInfo = kzalloc(sizeof(RT_DOT11D_INFO), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	ieee->pDot11dInfo = kzalloc(sizeof(RT_DOT11D_INFO), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ieee->pDot11dInfo)
 		IEEE80211_DEBUG(IEEE80211_DL_ERR, "can't alloc memory for DOT11D\n");
 	//added for  AP roaming
-- 
1.9.1