Based on GFP flag given to DMA coherent allocation, the behaviour of dma_free_coherent is changed. This behavioural diffrence is noticeable in ARM platform. If DMA memory is allocated with GFP_KERNEL, free coherent can not be called inside spin lock. This is causing kernel crash in ARM platforms. Fix this by changing GFP flag to atomic.
Cc: Michal Kazior <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c index 75e0aeb..14a5944 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c @@ -2839,7 +2839,7 @@ static int ath10k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, arvif->beacon_buf = dma_zalloc_coherent(ar->dev, IEEE80211_MAX_FRAME_LEN, &arvif->beacon_paddr, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!arvif->beacon_buf) { ret = -ENOMEM; ath10k_warn(ar, "failed to allocate beacon buffer: %d\n", -- 2.1.2 _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
