This patch puts the call to usb_alloc_urb() before the critical section starts that is protected with the io_mutex lock. This is to make the section as short as possible and to use the regular GFP_KERNEL flag. Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/most/usb/usb.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/usb/usb.c b/drivers/staging/most/usb/usb.c index a605e0f..534825f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/most/usb/usb.c +++ b/drivers/staging/most/usb/usb.c @@ -467,18 +467,16 @@ static int hdm_enqueue(struct most_interface *iface, int channel, if (iface->num_channels <= channel || channel < 0) return -ECHRNG; + urb = usb_alloc_urb(NO_ISOCHRONOUS_URB, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!urb) + return -ENOMEM; + conf = &mdev->conf[channel]; mutex_lock(&mdev->io_mutex); if (!mdev->usb_device) { retval = -ENODEV; - goto unlock_io_mutex; - } - - urb = usb_alloc_urb(NO_ISOCHRONOUS_URB, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!urb) { - retval = -ENOMEM; - goto unlock_io_mutex; + goto err_free_urb; } if ((conf->direction & MOST_CH_TX) && mdev->padding_active[channel] && -- 2.7.4