On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:

> > Why? Forcing all the report buffer to be limited to be non-sleeping
> > allocations just because of two drivers, looks like an overkill, and
> > actually calls for more issues (as GFP_ATOMIC is of course in principle
> > less likely to succeed).
> 
> Okay, I thought that using GFP_ATOMIC is the simplest way to fix these bugs.
> But I check the Linux kernel code again, and find that hid_hw_request() are
> called at many places.
> So changing this function may affect many drivers.
> I agree to only change the two drivers, and explicitly anotate __hid_request()
> with might_sleep().

Thanks. Are you planning to submit a patch to do that?

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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