From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The containing function is called from several places. At one of them, in the function untag_chunk, the spin lock &entry->lock is held. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @gfp exists@ identifier fn; position p; @@ fn(...) { ... when != spin_unlock when any GFP_KERNEL@p ... when any } @locked@ identifier gfp.fn; @@ spin_lock(...) ... when != spin_unlock fn(...) @depends on locked@ position gfp.p; @@ - GFP_KERNEL@p + GFP_ATOMIC // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/audit_tree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static struct audit_chunk *alloc_chunk(i int i; size = offsetof(struct audit_chunk, owners) + count * sizeof(struct node); - chunk = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + chunk = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!chunk) return NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
