netdev - Re: [PATCH] atm: firestream: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in fs

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Message-Id: <20180126.111015.455737320290348169.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:10:15 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     baijiaju1990@...il.com
Cc:     viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, 3chas3@...il.com,
        linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: firestream: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in
 fs_send

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:56:32 +0800

> My tool did not handle this situation of passing function pointer, and
> I will improve the tool...

Never automate these kinds of changes.

Actually audit the change fully _yourself_ as a human after the tool
indicates a possibility to you.

This is why most of your changes have bugs, you rely on the tool too
much.