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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2012-07-27 01:46:51 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-09 08:31:51 -0700
commite5481652427aa25fc74b45d755ff678df33601c1 (patch)
tree04b15c7ebde6c02d5089dab768c14df591133634 /drivers/net/usb
parentac6b310c5f5ecd6154e07069c6b6b67b7e768d8b (diff)
USB: kaweth.c: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock
[ Upstream commit e4c7f259c5be99dcfc3d98f913590663b0305bf8 ] The problem is that we call this with a spin lock held. The call tree is: kaweth_start_xmit() holds kaweth->device_lock. -> kaweth_async_set_rx_mode() -> kaweth_control() -> kaweth_internal_control_msg() The kaweth_internal_control_msg() function is only called from kaweth_control() which used GFP_ATOMIC for its allocations. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c b/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
index df2a2cf35a99..7a6ccd6c3b46 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
@@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static int kaweth_internal_control_msg(struct usb_device *usb_dev,
int retv;
int length = 0; /* shut up GCC */
- urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_NOIO);
+ urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!urb)
return -ENOMEM;