[PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation from atomic context
Adham.Abozaeid at microchip.com
Adham.Abozaeid at microchip.com
Tue Apr 16 23:17:07 UTC 2019
From: Adham Abozaeid <adham.abozaeid at microchip.com>
txq_add_mgmt_pkt allocates memory while being called from atomic context
so needs to use GFP_ATOMIC
Signed-off-by: Adham Abozaeid <adham.abozaeid at microchip.com>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c
index 2b309c8a8fb2..0a713409ea98 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ int wilc_wlan_txq_add_mgmt_pkt(struct net_device *dev, void *priv, u8 *buffer,
if (wilc->quit)
return 0;
- tqe = kmalloc(sizeof(*tqe), GFP_KERNEL);
+ tqe = kmalloc(sizeof(*tqe), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!tqe)
return 0;
--
2.17.1
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