The driver may sleep under a spinlock. The function call path is: qedi_cpu_offline (acquire the spinlock) qedi_fp_process_cqes qedi_mtask_completion qedi_process_tmf_resp kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC. This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code review. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c b/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c index bd302d3..20a9259 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static void qedi_process_tmf_resp(struct qedi_ctx *qedi, cqe_tmp_response = &cqe->cqe_common.iscsi_hdr.tmf_response; qedi_cmd = task->dd_data; - qedi_cmd->tmf_resp_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*resp_hdr_ptr), GFP_KERNEL); + qedi_cmd->tmf_resp_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*resp_hdr_ptr), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!qedi_cmd->tmf_resp_buf) { QEDI_ERR(&qedi->dbg_ctx, "Failed to allocate resp buf, cid=0x%x\n", -- 1.7.9.5