Re: [PATCH] goldfish_pipe: allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in spinlock context

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] goldfish_pipe: allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in spinlock context
Date	2017-06-13 16:10 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:18:26AM +0300, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> get_free_pipe_id_locked() is called with spinlock held, so
> the patch replaces GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC to avoid
> sleeping in atomic spinlock context.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This is already in my tree, why resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] goldfish_pipe: allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in spinlock context Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> - 2017-06-10 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] goldfish_pipe: allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in  spinlock context Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-13 16:10 +0200

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