Use the GFP_ATOMIC flag of kzalloc() with two memory allocation in report_del_sta_event(). This function is called while holding spinlocks, therefore it is not allowed to sleep. With the GFP_ATOMIC type flag, the allocation is high priority and must not sleep. This issue is detected by Smatch which emits the following warning: "drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c:6848 report_del_sta_event() warn: sleeping in atomic context". After the change, the post-commit hook output the following message: "CHECK: Prefer kzalloc(sizeof(*pcmd_obj)...) over kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj)...)". According to the above "CHECK", use the preferred style in the first kzalloc(). Fixes: 79f712ea994d ("staging: r8188eu: Remove wrappers for kalloc() and kzalloc()") Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2->v3: Add the "Fixes:" tag, as requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman. v1->v2: Fix an error that I introduced with an incorrect copy-paste of the sizeof() operator. drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c index 55c3d4a6faeb..315902682292 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c @@ -6845,12 +6845,12 @@ void report_del_sta_event(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *MacAddr, unsi struct mlme_ext_priv *pmlmeext = &padapter->mlmeextpriv; struct cmd_priv *pcmdpriv = &padapter->cmdpriv; - pcmd_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_KERNEL); + pcmd_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*pcmd_obj), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!pcmd_obj) return; cmdsz = (sizeof(struct stadel_event) + sizeof(struct C2HEvent_Header)); - pevtcmd = kzalloc(cmdsz, GFP_KERNEL); + pevtcmd = kzalloc(cmdsz, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!pevtcmd) { kfree(pcmd_obj); return; -- 2.33.1