drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c: convert GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC
authorJulia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:40:50 +0000 (10:40 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:08:39 +0000 (14:08 -0500)
The function is called with locks held and thus should not use GFP_KERNEL.

The semantic patch that makes this report is available
in scripts/coccinelle/locks/call_kern.cocci.

More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c

index 6396d3318ead1e3b3afb26858d57873a228022b4..98f1ca9cd6d862cb4169d465c8a20db7d4b202b6 100644 (file)
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ mwifiex_save_curr_bcn(struct mwifiex_private *priv)
 
                kfree(priv->curr_bcn_buf);
                priv->curr_bcn_buf = kmalloc(curr_bss->beacon_buf_size,
-                                               GFP_KERNEL);
+                                               GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (!priv->curr_bcn_buf) {
                        dev_err(priv->adapter->dev,
                                        "failed to alloc curr_bcn_buf\n");