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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: base: power: Fix GFP_KERNEL in spinlock context
Hi Shrikant,

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:45 PM, <shrikant.maurya@techveda.org> wrote:
> From: Shrikant Maurya <shrikant.maurya@techveda.org>
>
> As reported by Jia-Ju Bai (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/11/872):
> API's are using GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory which may sleep.
>
> To ensure atomicity such allocations must be avoided in critical
> sections under spinlock.
> Fixed by replacing GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shrikant Maurya <shrikant.maurya@techveda.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@techveda.org>
> Signed-off-by: Raghu Bharadwaj <raghu@techveda.org>
> Signed-off-by: Karthik Tummala <karthik@techveda.org>

Can't the call to device_init_wakeup() in isp116x_start() just be moved
below the spinlock release?

> --- a/drivers/base/power/wakeup.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/wakeup.c
> @@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ struct wakeup_source *wakeup_source_create(const char *name)
> {
> struct wakeup_source *ws;
>
> - ws = kmalloc(sizeof(*ws), GFP_KERNEL);
> + ws = kmalloc(sizeof(*ws), GFP_ATOMIC);

With GFP_ATOMIC, allocation failure is much more likely to occur.
So IMHO it's better to fix the isp116x, than to impose this burden on
every user.

> if (!ws)
> return NULL;
>
> - wakeup_source_prepare(ws, name ? kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL) : NULL);
> + wakeup_source_prepare(ws, name ? kstrdup_const(name, GFP_ATOMIC) : NULL);
> return ws;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wakeup_source_create);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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