From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752353Ab2AIJlB (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:41:01 -0500 Received: from mgw2.diku.dk ([130.225.96.92]:36961 "EHLO mgw2.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751153Ab2AIJk6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:40:58 -0500 From: Julia Lawall To: Bing Zhao Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall Subject: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c: convert GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:40:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1326102050-30265-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall The function is called with locks held and thus should not use GFP_KERNEL. The semantic patch that makes this report is available in scripts/coccinelle/locks/call_kern.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c index 6396d33..98f1ca9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c @@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ mwifiex_save_curr_bcn(struct mwifiex_private *priv) kfree(priv->curr_bcn_buf); priv->curr_bcn_buf = kmalloc(curr_bss->beacon_buf_size, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!priv->curr_bcn_buf) { dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, "failed to alloc curr_bcn_buf\n");