There is already a patch submitted to change to GFP_ATOMIC, which address this. -----Original Message----- From: Axel Lin [mailto:axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 7:58 PM To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Pandruvada, Srinivas; Jonathan Cameron; linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PATCH RFT] HID: sensor-hub: don't hold spin lock while calling kzalloc with GFP_KERNEL kzalloc might cause sleep, so don't hold spin lock while calling kzalloc with GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c index 4ac759c..162bf6a 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c @@ -173,14 +173,17 @@ int sensor_hub_register_callback(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, spin_unlock(&pdata->dyn_callback_lock); return -EINVAL; } + spin_unlock(&pdata->dyn_callback_lock); + callback = kzalloc(sizeof(*callback), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!callback) { - spin_unlock(&pdata->dyn_callback_lock); + if (!callback) return -ENOMEM; - } + callback->usage_callback = usage_callback; callback->usage_id = usage_id; callback->priv = NULL; + + spin_lock(&pdata->dyn_callback_lock); list_add_tail(&callback->list, &pdata->dyn_callback_list); spin_unlock(&pdata->dyn_callback_lock); -- 1.7.9.5 ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��)��^n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�