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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
	Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>,
	Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
	brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com
Subject: [PATCH] brcmsmac: allocate ucode with GFP_KERNEL
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:41:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180316154149.16891-1-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)

The brcms_ucode_init_buf() duplicates the ucode chunks via kmemdup()
with GFP_ATOMIC as a precondition of wl->lock acquired.  This caused
allocation failures sometimes as reported in the bugzilla below.

When looking at the the real usage, one can find that it's called
solely from brcms_request_fw(), and it's obviously outside the lock.
Hence we can use GFP_KERNEL there safely for avoiding such allocation
errors.

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085174
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
index ddfdfe177e24..a14fccf8a902 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ void brcms_free_timer(struct brcms_timer *t)
 }
 
 /*
- * precondition: perimeter lock has been acquired
+ * precondition: no locking required
  */
 int brcms_ucode_init_buf(struct brcms_info *wl, void **pbuf, u32 idx)
 {
@@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@ int brcms_ucode_init_buf(struct brcms_info *wl, void **pbuf, u32 idx)
 			if (le32_to_cpu(hdr->idx) == idx) {
 				pdata = wl->fw.fw_bin[i]->data +
 					le32_to_cpu(hdr->offset);
-				*pbuf = kmemdup(pdata, len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+				*pbuf = kmemdup(pdata, len, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (*pbuf == NULL)
 					goto fail;
 
-- 
2.16.2

             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-16 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-16 15:41 Takashi Iwai [this message]
2018-03-16 20:50 ` [PATCH] brcmsmac: allocate ucode with GFP_KERNEL Arend van Spriel
2018-03-27  9:09 ` Kalle Valo

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