From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:38:42 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: st: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in
Git-commit: 4011f07660e0c909e25ea2c09ad4761c26c0b8df
Patch-mainline: v4.18-rc1
References: bsc#1118139
new_tape_buffer
new_tape_buffer() is never called in atomic context. new_tape_buffer()
is only called by st_probe(), which is only set as ".probe" in struct
scsi_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context, new_tape_buffer()
calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which does not sleep for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, which
can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation.
This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
And I also manually check it.
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
---
drivers/scsi/st.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index 4c7d39b825a3..e64489a4a9a6 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -3878,7 +3878,7 @@ static struct st_buffer *new_tape_buffer(int need_dma, int max_sg)
{
struct st_buffer *tb;
- tb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct st_buffer), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ tb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct st_buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tb) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE "st: Can't allocate new tape buffer.\n");
return NULL;
@@ -3889,7 +3889,7 @@ static struct st_buffer *new_tape_buffer(int need_dma, int max_sg)
tb->buffer_size = 0;
tb->reserved_pages = kzalloc(max_sg * sizeof(struct page *),
- GFP_ATOMIC);
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tb->reserved_pages) {
kfree(tb);
return NULL;
--
2.12.3