On 04/09/2018 11:03 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>
>


Applied the series and the extra patch to for-linus-4.17

-boris

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