netdev - [PATCH] ice: Don't use GFP_KERNEL in atomic context

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Date:   Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:46:20 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>,
        Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ice: Don't use GFP_KERNEL in atomic context

ice_misc_intr() is an irq handler. It should not sleep.

Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL when allocating some memory.

Fixes: 348048e724a0 ("ice: Implement iidc operations")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
I've never played a lot with irq handler. My understanding is that they
should never sleep. So GFP_KERNEL must be avoided. So I guess that this
patch is correct.

However, I don't know if some special cases allow such allocation.
Any feedback/pointer to a good doc/explanation is welcome :)
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
index 30814435f779..65de01f3a504 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -3018,7 +3018,7 @@ static irqreturn_t ice_misc_intr(int __always_unused irq, void *data)
 		struct iidc_event *event;
 
 		ena_mask &= ~ICE_AUX_CRIT_ERR;
-		event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL);
+		event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (event) {
 			set_bit(IIDC_EVENT_CRIT_ERR, event->type);
 			/* report the entire OICR value to AUX driver */
-- 
2.32.0