On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 08:23:45AM -0400, kaike.wan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Kaike Wan <kaike.wan@xxxxxxxxx> > > It was found by Saurabh Sengar that the netlink code tried to allocate > memory with GFP_KERNEL while holding a spinlock. While it is possible > to fix the issue by replacing GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC, it is better > to get rid of the spinlock while sending the packet. However, in order > to protect against a race condition that a quick response may be received > before the request is put on the request list, we need to put the request > on the list first. > > Signed-off-by: Kaike Wan <kaike.wan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
