USB: Don't use GFP_KERNEL while we cannot reset a storage device
authorOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:32:50 +0000 (12:32 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:24:34 +0000 (15:24 -0800)
Memory allocations with GFP_KERNEL can cause IO to a storage
device which can fail resulting in a need to reset the device.
Therefore GFP_KERNEL cannot be safely used between usb_lock_device()
and usb_unlock_device(). Replace by GFP_NOIO.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/core/devices.c
drivers/usb/core/message.c

index 96f11715cd269b4cb8594c12c4c027ae50350af8..355dffcc23b0f33a341e53d8b27218b175f7e221 100644 (file)
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static ssize_t usb_device_dump(char __user **buffer, size_t *nbytes,
                return 0;
        /* allocate 2^1 pages = 8K (on i386);
         * should be more than enough for one device */
-       pages_start = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1);
+       pages_start = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOIO, 1);
        if (!pages_start)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
index 1b994846e8e01bec12219873eb6926e97cbc3e81..9bc95fec793fa674727d19c53820853c128afabb 100644 (file)
@@ -906,11 +906,11 @@ char *usb_cache_string(struct usb_device *udev, int index)
        if (index <= 0)
                return NULL;
 
-       buf = kmalloc(MAX_USB_STRING_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+       buf = kmalloc(MAX_USB_STRING_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
        if (buf) {
                len = usb_string(udev, index, buf, MAX_USB_STRING_SIZE);
                if (len > 0) {
-                       smallbuf = kmalloc(++len, GFP_KERNEL);
+                       smallbuf = kmalloc(++len, GFP_NOIO);
                        if (!smallbuf)
                                return buf;
                        memcpy(smallbuf, buf, len);
@@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@ int usb_set_configuration(struct usb_device *dev, int configuration)
        if (cp) {
                nintf = cp->desc.bNumInterfaces;
                new_interfaces = kmalloc(nintf * sizeof(*new_interfaces),
-                               GFP_KERNEL);
+                               GFP_NOIO);
                if (!new_interfaces) {
                        dev_err(&dev->dev, "Out of memory\n");
                        return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ int usb_set_configuration(struct usb_device *dev, int configuration)
                for (; n < nintf; ++n) {
                        new_interfaces[n] = kzalloc(
                                        sizeof(struct usb_interface),
-                                       GFP_KERNEL);
+                                       GFP_NOIO);
                        if (!new_interfaces[n]) {
                                dev_err(&dev->dev, "Out of memory\n");
                                ret = -ENOMEM;