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[07/10] Staging: batman-adv: Don't allocate icmp packet with GFP_KERNEL

Message ID 1274537833-2512-7-git-send-email-sven.eckelmann@gmx.de (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Sven Eckelmann May 22, 2010, 2:17 p.m. UTC 
  A new buffer for a packet is created when a icmp packet is received.
This happens in a context with disabled irq. Thus we are not allowed to
sleep or call function which might sleep. kmalloc must be called with
GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL to ensure that it does not sleep.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
---
 drivers/staging/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
index 748b4ae..f1d790b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@  static void bat_socket_add_packet(struct socket_client *socket_client,
 	struct socket_packet *socket_packet;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	socket_packet = kmalloc(sizeof(struct socket_packet), GFP_KERNEL);
+	socket_packet = kmalloc(sizeof(struct socket_packet), GFP_ATOMIC);
 
 	if (!socket_packet)
 		return;