The driver may sleep under a spinlock.
The function call path is:
bdisp_device_run (acquire the spinlock)
  bdisp_hw_update
    bdisp_hw_save_request
      devm_kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code 
review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-hw.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-hw.c 
b/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-hw.c
index 4b62ceb..7b45b43 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-hw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-hw.c
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ static void bdisp_hw_save_request(struct bdisp_ctx *ctx)
                if (!copy_node[i]) {
                        copy_node[i] = devm_kzalloc(ctx->bdisp_dev->dev,
                                                    sizeof(*copy_node[i]),
-                                                   GFP_KERNEL);
+                                                   GFP_ATOMIC);
                        if (!copy_node[i])
                                return;
                }
-- 
1.7.9.5

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