On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 09:49:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> > > kaweth_async_set_rx_mode() invokes kaweth_contol() and has two callers: > > - kaweth_open() which is invoked from preemptible context > . > - kaweth_start_xmit() which holds a spinlock and has bottom halfs disabled. > > If called from kaweth_start_xmit() kaweth_async_set_rx_mode() obviously > cannot block, which means it can't call kaweth_control(). This is detected > with an in_interrupt() check. > > Replace the in_interrupt() check in kaweth_async_set_rx_mode() with an > argument which is set true by the caller if the context is safe to sleep, > otherwise false. > > Now kaweth_control() is only called from preemptible context which means > there is no need for GFP_ATOMIC allocations anymore. Replace it with > usb_control_msg(). Cleanup the code a bit while at it. > > Finally remove kaweth_control() since the last user is gone. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org
Thanks for the cleanup, that driver really needed it! Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
