Re: [PATCH] crypto: virtio: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in __virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_do_req()

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:43:46PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> __virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_do_req() is never called in atomic context.
> 
> __virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_do_req() is only called by 
> virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_crypt_req(), which is only called by 
> virtcrypto_find_vqs() that is never called in atomic context.
> 
> __virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_do_req() calls kzalloc_node() with GFP_ATOMIC,
> which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
> I also manually check the kernel code before reporting it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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