From: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:40:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: staging: hv: fix netvsc sleeping while atomic
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc3~8^2~23
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d70c673153d42e8aefd5ac296c8159ef222d076b;p=karo-tx-linux.git

staging: hv: fix netvsc sleeping while atomic

The channel callbacks are called directly from vmbus_event_dpc
which runs in tasklet context. These callbacks need to use
GFP_ATOMIC.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16701

Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c
index df9cd131e953..0edbe7483a4c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ static void netvsc_channel_cb(void *context)
 	/* ASSERT(device); */
 
 	packet = kzalloc(NETVSC_PACKET_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned char),
-			 GFP_KERNEL);
+			 GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!packet)
 		return;
 	buffer = packet;