The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock. The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 are: [FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c, 633: kzalloc in lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6729: [FUNC_PTR]lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc in lpfc_post_rq_buffer drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6723: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lpfc_post_rq_buffer [FUNC] dma_pool_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c, 637: dma_pool_alloc in lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6729: [FUNC_PTR]lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc in lpfc_post_rq_buffer drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6723: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lpfc_post_rq_buffer [FUNC] dma_pool_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c, 643: dma_pool_alloc in lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6729: [FUNC_PTR]lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc in lpfc_post_rq_buffer drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6723: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lpfc_post_rq_buffer Note that [FUNC_PTR] means a function pointer call is used. To fix these bugs, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC. These bugs are found by my static analysis tool DSAC. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c index 9c22a2c93462..20359e5d0016 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c @@ -631,18 +631,18 @@ lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc(struct lpfc_hba *phba) { struct rqb_dmabuf *dma_buf; - dma_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rqb_dmabuf), GFP_KERNEL); + dma_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rqb_dmabuf), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!dma_buf) return NULL; - dma_buf->hbuf.virt = dma_pool_alloc(phba->lpfc_hrb_pool, GFP_KERNEL, + dma_buf->hbuf.virt = dma_pool_alloc(phba->lpfc_hrb_pool, GFP_ATOMIC, &dma_buf->hbuf.phys); if (!dma_buf->hbuf.virt) { kfree(dma_buf); return NULL; } dma_buf->dbuf.virt = dma_pool_alloc(phba->lpfc_nvmet_drb_pool, - GFP_KERNEL, &dma_buf->dbuf.phys); + GFP_ATOMIC, &dma_buf->dbuf.phys); if (!dma_buf->dbuf.virt) { dma_pool_free(phba->lpfc_hrb_pool, dma_buf->hbuf.virt, dma_buf->hbuf.phys); -- 2.17.0