On Monday, July 21, 2014 11:37:41 AM Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 08:02 -0700, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the cfg80211_rx_mgmt(), there is parameter 'gfp_t gfp' that is > > passed to the nl80211_send_mgmt() and then to alloc_skb(). > > In fact, nl80211_send_mgmt() called under spinlock, so > > one can't use GFP_KERNEL. However, documentation for > > cfg80211_rx_mgmt does not restrict GFP flags. > > > > I suggest to document this, and enforce in some way (WARN_ONCE?), > > or just remove this parameter - everywhere in the kernel > > GFP_ATOMIC is used. > > I say just remove it, want to send a patch? > > johannes > Yes, I will. Sorry for delay, was out (climbing some 7000m+ peak :-) ) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
