There is no need to use GFP_ATOMIC here. It is a probe function, no spinlock is taken and GFP_KERNEL is used just before and just after this 'usb_alloc_coherent()' call. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c b/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c index 2f44af1831d0..ea67b98ed35d 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int usb_pcwd_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, /* set up the memory buffer's */ usb_pcwd->intr_buffer = usb_alloc_coherent(udev, usb_pcwd->intr_size, - GFP_ATOMIC, &usb_pcwd->intr_dma); + GFP_KERNEL, &usb_pcwd->intr_dma); if (!usb_pcwd->intr_buffer) { pr_err("Out of memory\n"); goto error; -- 2.25.1