From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Don't allocate icmp packet with GFP_KERNEL
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:25:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005212325.53184.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274295600-16987-1-git-send-email-sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
On Thursday 20 May 2010 03:00:00 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> A new buffer for a packet is created when a icmp packet is received.
> This happens in a context with disabled irq. Thus we are not allowed to
> sleep or call function which might sleep. kmalloc must be called with
> GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL to ensure that it does not sleep.
Applied in rev 1671.
Thanks,
Marek
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-21 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 19:00 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Don't allocate icmp packet with GFP_KERNEL Sven Eckelmann
2010-05-19 19:12 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint] " Sven Eckelmann
2010-05-21 15:25 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
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