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[PATCH 3.14 21/76] vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

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  [PATCH 3.14 21/76] vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-15 00:30 +0100

#1333794 — [PATCH 3.14 21/76] vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hon Ching \(Vicky\) Lo <honclo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 60ecd86c4d985750efa0ea3d8610972b09951715 upstream.

At ibm vtpm initialzation, tpm_ibmvtpm_probe() registers its interrupt
handler, ibmvtpm_interrupt, which calls ibmvtpm_crq_process to allocate
memory for rtce buffer.  The current code uses 'GFP_KERNEL' as the
type of kernel memory allocation, which resulted a warning at
kernel/lockdep.c.  This patch uses 'GFP_ATOMIC' instead so that the
allocation is high-priority and does not sleep.

Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <honclo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static void ibmvtpm_crq_process(struct i
 			}
 			ibmvtpm->rtce_size = be16_to_cpu(crq->len);
 			ibmvtpm->rtce_buf = kmalloc(ibmvtpm->rtce_size,
-						    GFP_KERNEL);
+						    GFP_ATOMIC);
 			if (!ibmvtpm->rtce_buf) {
 				dev_err(ibmvtpm->dev, "Failed to allocate memory for rtce buffer\n");
 				return;

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