Hello.

On 04/11/2018 04:14 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> atusb_probe() is never called in atomic context.
> This function is only set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver.
>
> Despite never getting called from atomic context,
> atusb_probe() calls usb_alloc_urb() 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/net/ieee802154/atusb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c
> index ef68851..ab6a505 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c
> @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ static int atusb_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
>       atusb->tx_dr.bRequest = ATUSB_TX;
>       atusb->tx_dr.wValue = cpu_to_le16(0);
>  
> -     atusb->tx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +     atusb->tx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!atusb->tx_urb)
>               goto fail;
>  

This patch has been applied to the wpan tree and will be
part of the next pull request to net. Thanks!

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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