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author | Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> | 2018-04-10 20:24:23 +0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-04-23 15:51:34 +0200 |
commit | a40c973eebe61aa9242f5501d5d5598778e3bea2 (patch) | |
tree | baf3fc1f99e9eb11d0e270a900fa2cb9947f87d7 /security | |
parent | a626c4fddd784a76b06573165f44b6bbba2d1808 (diff) |
staging: rtl8192u: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ieee80211_softmac_init
ieee80211_softmac_init() is never called in atomic context.
The call chains ending up at ieee80211_softmac_init() is:
[1] ieee80211_softmac_init() <- alloc_ieee80211_rsl() <-
rtl8192_usb_probe()
rtl8192_usb_probe() is set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context,
ieee80211_softmac_init() 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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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