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* [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init()
@ 2016-02-18 18:47 Matwey V. Kornilov
  2016-02-18 20:21 ` Andy Shevchenko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Matwey V. Kornilov @ 2016-02-18 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh, jslaby, peter, andy.shevchenko, gnomes
  Cc: Matwey V. Kornilov, linux-kernel, linux-serial

serial8250_em485_init() is supposed to be protected with
p->port.lock spinlock.
This may lead to issues when kmalloc sleeps, so it is better to use
GFP_ATOMIC in this spinlocked context.

Fixes: e490c9144cfa ("tty: Add software emulated RS485 support for 8250")
Reported-by: <torso.nafi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey@sai.msu.ru>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index c908b77..4d6deef 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ int serial8250_em485_init(struct uart_8250_port *p)
 	if (p->em485 != NULL)
 		return 0;
 
-	p->em485 = kmalloc(sizeof(struct uart_8250_em485), GFP_KERNEL);
+	p->em485 = kmalloc(sizeof(struct uart_8250_em485), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (p->em485 == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.7.0

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2016-02-18 18:47 [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init() Matwey V. Kornilov
2016-02-18 20:21 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-18 20:29   ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2016-02-18 23:47     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-19  5:36       ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2016-02-19 11:53     ` Ильяс Гасанов

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