netdev - Re: [PATCH] isdn: hisax: config: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP

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Message-Id: <20180726.212507.209809359488602241.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jul 2018 21:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     baijiaju1990@...il.com
Cc:     isdn@...ux-pingi.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isdn: hisax: config: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:48:28 +0800

> hisax_cs_new() and hisax_cs_setup() are never called in atomic context.
> They call kmalloc() and 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.