[PATCH 03/13] staging: wilc1000: wilc_mq_send: reorder spin_lock and allocations

Mike Rapoport mike.rapoport at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 19:00:45 UTC 2015


Make memory allocations outside of spin lock, so that ellocation errors
handling will not require unlocking

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
index 4b1c36e..127b3e5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ int wilc_mq_send(WILC_MsgQueueHandle *pHandle,
 	if (pHandle->bExiting)
 		return WILC_FAIL;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&pHandle->strCriticalSection, flags);
-
 	/* construct a new message */
 	pstrMessage = kmalloc(sizeof(Message), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	WILC_NULLCHECK(s32RetStatus, pstrMessage);
@@ -75,6 +73,8 @@ int wilc_mq_send(WILC_MsgQueueHandle *pHandle,
 	memcpy(pstrMessage->pvBuffer, pvSendBuffer, u32SendBufferSize);
 
 	/* add it to the message queue */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&pHandle->strCriticalSection, flags);
+
 	if (!pHandle->pstrMessageList) {
 		pHandle->pstrMessageList  = pstrMessage;
 	} else {
-- 
2.1.0



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