From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> The function is called with locks held and thus should not use GFP_KERNEL. The semantic patch that makes this report is available in scripts/coccinelle/locks/call_kern.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c index 6396d33..98f1ca9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c @@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ mwifiex_save_curr_bcn(struct mwifiex_private *priv) kfree(priv->curr_bcn_buf); priv->curr_bcn_buf = kmalloc(curr_bss->beacon_buf_size, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!priv->curr_bcn_buf) { dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, "failed to alloc curr_bcn_buf\n"); -- 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