To avoid deadlock, do not call blocking functions with spinlocks held. Replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC, as the latter will fail if the heap doesn't have enough free pages but will not sleep and hence deadlock can be avoided. Found by Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@xxxxxxxxx> --- Is there any other way this can be fixed as it is better to avoid GFP_ATOMIC? drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c index af98b09..8a25d30 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ static ssize_t ffs_epfile_io(struct file *file, struct ffs_io_data *io_data) } if (io_data->aio) { - req = usb_ep_alloc_request(ep->ep, GFP_KERNEL); + req = usb_ep_alloc_request(ep->ep, GFP_ATOMIC); if (unlikely(!req)) goto error_lock; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html