Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:59:28 +0200 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: usb: hso: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in hso_create_device |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:35:24PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > hso_create_device() is never called in atomic context. > > The call chains ending up at hso_create_device() are: > [1] hso_create_device() <- hso_create_bulk_serial_device() <- hso_probe() > [2] hso_create_device() <- hso_create_mux_serial_device() <- hso_probe() > [3] hso_create_device() <- hso_create_net_device() <- hso_probe() > hso_probe() is set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver, > so it is not called in atomic context. > > Despite never getting called from atomic context, > hso_create_device() calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, > which does not sleep for allocation. > GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, > which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation. > > This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself. > And I also manually check it. > > Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Thanks for the patch. This looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Johan
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