A new buffer for a packet is created when a icmp packet is received.
This happens in a context with disabled irq. Thus we are not allowed to
sleep or call function which might sleep. kmalloc must be called with
GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL to ensure that it does not sleep.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
struct device_packet *device_packet;
unsigned long flags;
- device_packet = kmalloc(sizeof(struct device_packet), GFP_KERNEL);
+ device_packet = kmalloc(sizeof(struct device_packet), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!device_packet)
return;