[net-next 05/15] i40e: allocate memory safer
From: Jeff Kirsher <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-17 17:51:50
Subsystem:
intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Jesse Brandeburg <redacted> The sync_vsi_filter function was allocating memory in such a way that it could sleep (GFP_KERNEL) which was causing a problem when called by the team driver under rcu_read_lock(), which cannot be held while sleeping. Found with lockdep. Change-ID: I4e59053cb5eedcf3d0ca151715be3dc42a94bdd5 Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <redacted> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index c4ad0f1..fe67b90 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ int i40e_sync_vsi_filters(struct i40e_vsi *vsi) sizeof(struct i40e_aqc_remove_macvlan_element_data); del_list_size = filter_list_len * sizeof(struct i40e_aqc_remove_macvlan_element_data); - del_list = kzalloc(del_list_size, GFP_KERNEL); + del_list = kzalloc(del_list_size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!del_list) { i40e_cleanup_add_list(&tmp_add_list);
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ int i40e_sync_vsi_filters(struct i40e_vsi *vsi) sizeof(struct i40e_aqc_add_macvlan_element_data), add_list_size = filter_list_len * sizeof(struct i40e_aqc_add_macvlan_element_data); - add_list = kzalloc(add_list_size, GFP_KERNEL); + add_list = kzalloc(add_list_size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!add_list) { /* Purge element from temporary lists */ i40e_cleanup_add_list(&tmp_add_list);
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