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[PATCH review for 4.9 01/50] xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash

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From "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
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Subject [PATCH review for 4.9 01/50] xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash
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From: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>

[ Upstream commit 9f674e48c13dcbc31ac903433727837795b81efe ]

Allocation of new_hash, inside xenvif_new_hash(), always happen
in softirq context, so use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL for new
hash allocation.

Signed-off-by: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
index e8c5dddc54ba..3c4c58b9fe76 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void xenvif_add_hash(struct xenvif *vif, const u8 *tag,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	bool found;
 
-	new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!new)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.11.0

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