The driver may sleep under a spin lock, and the function call path is: mraid_mm_attach_buf (acquire the lock by spin_lock_irqsave) pci_pool_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep To fix it, the "GFP_KERNEL" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC". Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c index 4cf9ed9..c43afb8 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ kioc->pool_index = right_pool; kioc->free_buf = 1; - kioc->buf_vaddr = pci_pool_alloc(pool->handle, GFP_KERNEL, + kioc->buf_vaddr = pci_pool_alloc(pool->handle, GFP_ATOMIC, &kioc->buf_paddr); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); -- 1.7.9.5