GFP_DMA isn't supposed to be used by itself. This allocation is allowed to sleep so it should be ORing it with GFP_KERNEL. Also we should check for allocations errors. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I don't have the hardware to test this. Sorry. diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.c index 5c4716c..7ea10e1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.c @@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ static int wl1271_cmd_wait_for_event_or_timeout(struct wl1271 *wl, u32 mask) unsigned long timeout; int ret = 0; - events_vector = kmalloc(sizeof(*events_vector), GFP_DMA); + events_vector = kmalloc(sizeof(*events_vector), GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); + if (!events_vector) + return -ENOMEM; timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(WL1271_EVENT_TIMEOUT); -- 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