From: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> coccinelle check scripts/coccinelle/locks/call_kern.cocci found that in drivers/usb/host/xhci.c an allocation with GFP_KERNEL is done with locks held: xhci_resume spin_lock_irq(xhci->lock) xhci_setup_msix kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) Change it to GFP_ATOMIC. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> CC: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c index 5d7d4e9..8ddc965 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static int xhci_setup_msix(struct xhci_hcd *xhci) xhci->msix_entries = kmalloc((sizeof(struct msix_entry))*xhci->msix_count, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!xhci->msix_entries) { xhci_err(xhci, "Failed to allocate MSI-X entries\n"); return -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.1 -- 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