usb_isoc_urb_init() is never called in atomic context. The call chains ending up at usb_isoc_urb_init() are: [1] usb_isoc_urb_init() <- usb_urb_init() <- dvb_usb_adapter_stream_init() <- dvb_usb_adapter_init <- dvb_usb_init() <- dvb_usb_device_init() <- xxx_probe() xxx_probe including ttusb2_probe, vp7045_usb_probe, a800_probe, and so on. These xxx_probe() functions are set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver. And these functions are not called in atomic context. Despite never getting called from atomic context, usb_isoc_urb_init() calls usb_alloc_urb() with GFP_ATOMIC, which does not sleep for allocation. GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation. This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself. And I also manually check it. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/usb-urb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/usb-urb.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/usb-urb.c index 8917360..1efa4bd5 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/usb-urb.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/usb-urb.c @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int usb_isoc_urb_init(struct usb_data_stream *stream) struct urb *urb; int frame_offset = 0; - stream->urb_list[i] = usb_alloc_urb(stream->props.u.isoc.framesperurb, GFP_ATOMIC); + stream->urb_list[i] = usb_alloc_urb(stream->props.u.isoc.framesperurb, GFP_KERNEL); if (!stream->urb_list[i]) { deb_mem("not enough memory for urb_alloc_urb!\n"); for (j = 0; j < i; j++) -- 1.9.1