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[PATCH] net: nsci: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ncsi_register_dev

From: Jia-Ju Bai <hidden>
Date: 2018-04-09 14:11:15
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Subsystem: ncsi library, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

ncsi_register_dev() is never called in atomic context.
This function is only called by ftgmac100_probe() in 
drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c.
And ftgmac100_probe() is only set as ".probe" in "struct platform_driver".

Despite never getting called from atomic context,
ncsi_register_dev() calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC,
which waits busily for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL,
to avoid busy waiting 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 <redacted>
---
 net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
index 3fd3c39..6b5b5a0 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ struct ncsi_dev *ncsi_register_dev(struct net_device *dev,
 		return nd;
 
 	/* Create NCSI device */
-	ndp = kzalloc(sizeof(*ndp), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	ndp = kzalloc(sizeof(*ndp), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ndp)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
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