linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: bcast: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in tipc_bcast

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Message-Id: <20180727.141313.1728041732656571923.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:13:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     baijiaju1990@...il.com
Cc:     jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: bcast: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL
 in tipc_bcast_init()

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:31:35 +0800

> tipc_bcast_init() is never called in atomic context.
> It calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>

Applied.