netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/ncsi: Avoid GFP

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Message-Id: <20180603.104236.1164095896276916209.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 03 Jun 2018 10:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sam@...dozajonas.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/ncsi: Avoid GFP_KERNEL in response handler

From: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:02:54 +1000

> ncsi_rsp_handler_gc() allocates the filter arrays using GFP_KERNEL in
> softirq context, causing the below backtrace. This allocation is only a
> few dozen bytes during probing so allocate with GFP_ATOMIC instead.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>

Applied with Fixes: tag added, thanks.