The SCTP program may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is: sctp_generate_t3_rtx_event (acquire the spinlock) sctp_do_sm sctp_side_effects sctp_cmd_interpreter sctp_make_init_ack sctp_pack_cookie crypto_shash_setkey shash_setkey_unaligned kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) For the same reason, the orinoco driver may sleep in interrupt handler, and the function call path is: orinoco_rx_isr_tasklet orinoco_rx orinoco_mic crypto_shash_setkey shash_setkey_unaligned kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC. This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> --- crypto/shash.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crypto/shash.c b/crypto/shash.c index 5e31c8d..8fcecc6 100644 --- a/crypto/shash.c +++ b/crypto/shash.c @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int shash_setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_shash *tfm, const u8 *key, int err; absize = keylen + (alignmask & ~(crypto_tfm_ctx_alignment() - 1)); - buffer = kmalloc(absize, GFP_KERNEL); + buffer = kmalloc(absize, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!buffer) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.9.5