From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: ipvs: use GFP_KERNEL allocation where possible Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:23:27 -0700 Message-ID: <20120423142327.GB32269@kroah.com> References: <1335183428-2585-1-git-send-email-horms@verge.net.au> <1335183428-2585-3-git-send-email-horms@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Wensong Zhang , Julian Anastasov , Sasha Levin , stable@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Horman Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1335183428-2585-3-git-send-email-horms@verge.net.au> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:17:08PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > From: Sasha Levin > > Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when registering an ipvs protocol. > > This is safe since it will always run from a process context. > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > Acked-by: Julian Anastasov > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman > --- > net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) How does this patch meet the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt requirements?