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* [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe()
@ 2018-07-27  8:29 Jia-Ju Bai
  2018-07-27 21:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jia-Ju Bai @ 2018-07-27  8:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, yanjun.zhu, keescook; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Jia-Ju Bai

nv_probe() is never called in atomic context.
It calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
index 66c665d0b926..a6f1a5a3daea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
@@ -5775,7 +5775,7 @@ static int nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 						      (np->rx_ring_size +
 						      np->tx_ring_size),
 						      &np->ring_addr,
-						      GFP_ATOMIC);
+						      GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!np->rx_ring.orig)
 			goto out_unmap;
 		np->tx_ring.orig = &np->rx_ring.orig[np->rx_ring_size];
@@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@ static int nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 						    sizeof(struct ring_desc_ex) *
 						    (np->rx_ring_size +
 						    np->tx_ring_size),
-						    &np->ring_addr, GFP_ATOMIC);
+						    &np->ring_addr, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!np->rx_ring.ex)
 			goto out_unmap;
 		np->tx_ring.ex = &np->rx_ring.ex[np->rx_ring_size];
-- 
2.17.0


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* Re: [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe()
  2018-07-27  8:29 [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe() Jia-Ju Bai
@ 2018-07-27 21:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2018-07-27 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: baijiaju1990; +Cc: yanjun.zhu, keescook, netdev, linux-kernel

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:29:31 +0800

> nv_probe() is never called in atomic context.
> It calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>

Applied.

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