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Message-Id: <1360319958-10497-4-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date:	Fri,  8 Feb 2013 02:39:11 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: [net-next 03/10] igb: Fix for improper allocation flag in igb_get_i2c_client

From: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>

This patch fixes the allocation function in igb_get_i2c_client to use
GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL because we have a spinlock.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index d84f28c..c19a35c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -7751,7 +7751,7 @@ igb_get_i2c_client(struct igb_adapter *adapter, u8 dev_addr)
 	}
 
 	/* no client_list found, create a new one */
-	client_list = kzalloc(sizeof(*client_list), GFP_KERNEL);
+	client_list = kzalloc(sizeof(*client_list), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (client_list == NULL)
 		goto exit;
 
-- 
1.7.11.7

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