pcistub_probe() is never called in atomic context. This function is only set as ".probe" in struct pci_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context, pcistub_probe() calls kmalloc() 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 <baijiaju1...@gmail.com> --- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c index 9e480fd..95e6ddd 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static int pcistub_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id) } if (!match) { - pci_dev_id = kmalloc(sizeof(*pci_dev_id), GFP_ATOMIC); + pci_dev_id = kmalloc(sizeof(*pci_dev_id), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pci_dev_id) { err = -ENOMEM; goto out; -- 1.9.1