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| author | Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> | 2018-04-10 20:38:42 +0800 |
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| committer | Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> | 2018-04-20 19:14:37 -0400 |
| commit | 4011f07660e0c909e25ea2c09ad4761c26c0b8df (patch) | |
| tree | a06849376cd9c87197b1277592398eff2f0add31 /drivers/scsi/st.c | |
| parent | 1f618aac2f00d3d9a4942cda14b8c33d28a11840 (diff) | |
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scsi: st: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in new_tape_buffer
new_tape_buffer() is never called in atomic context. new_tape_buffer()
is only called by st_probe(), which is only set as ".probe" in struct
scsi_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context, new_tape_buffer()
calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which does not sleep for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, which
can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation.
This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
And I also manually check it.
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/st.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/st.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c index 4c7d39b825a3..e64489a4a9a6 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c @@ -3878,7 +3878,7 @@ static struct st_buffer *new_tape_buffer(int need_dma, int max_sg) { struct st_buffer *tb; - tb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct st_buffer), GFP_ATOMIC); + tb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct st_buffer), GFP_KERNEL); if (!tb) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "st: Can't allocate new tape buffer.\n"); return NULL; @@ -3889,7 +3889,7 @@ static struct st_buffer *new_tape_buffer(int need_dma, int max_sg) tb->buffer_size = 0; tb->reserved_pages = kzalloc(max_sg * sizeof(struct page *), - GFP_ATOMIC); + GFP_KERNEL); if (!tb->reserved_pages) { kfree(tb); return NULL; |