Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:43:21 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] crypto: crypto_user: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in crypto_report |
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 06:06:02PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > After checking all possible call chains to crypto_report here, > my tool finds that crypto_report is never called in atomic context. > And crypto_report calls crypto_alg_match which calls down_read, > thus it proves again that crypto_report can call functions which may sleep. > Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it 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@gmail.com>
Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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