Commit 62289ba2 authored Apr 19, 2017 by sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com Committed by David S. Miller Apr 20, 2017

qed: Fix possible system hang in the dcbnl-getdcbx() path.



qed_dcbnl_get_dcbx() API uses kmalloc in GFT_KERNEL mode. The API gets
invoked in the interrupt context by qed_dcbnl_getdcbx callback. Need
to invoke this kmalloc in atomic mode.

Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 6cf75f1c

drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@ static struct qed_dcbx_get qed_dcbnl_get_dcbx(struct qed_hwfn hwfn,
		{
		struct qed_dcbx_get *dcbx_info;

		dcbx_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*dcbx_info), GFP_KERNEL);
		dcbx_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*dcbx_info), GFP_ATOMIC);
		if (!dcbx_info)
		return NULL;

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