From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> e100_hw_init() invokes e100_self_test() only if in_interrupt() returns false as e100_self_test() uses msleep() which requires sleepable task context. The in_interrupt() check is incomplete because in_interrupt() cannot catch callers from contexts which have just preemption or interrupts disabled. e100_hw_init() is invoked from: - e100_loopback_test() which clearly is sleepable task context as the function uses msleep() itself. - e100_up() which clearly is sleepable task context as well because it invokes e100_alloc_cbs() abd request_irq() which both require sleepable task context due to GFP_KERNEL allocations and mutex_lock() operations. Remove the pointless in_interrupt() check. As a side effect of this analysis it turned out that e100_rx_alloc_list() which is only invoked from e100_loopback_test() and e100_up() pointlessly uses a GFP_ATOMIC allocation. The next invoked function e100_alloc_cbs() is using GFP_KERNEL already. Change the allocation mode in e100_rx_alloc_list() to GFP_KERNEL as well. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c @@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@ static int e100_hw_init(struct nic *nic) e100_hw_reset(nic); netif_err(nic, hw, nic->netdev, "e100_hw_init\n"); - if (!in_interrupt() && (err = e100_self_test(nic))) + if ((err = e100_self_test(nic))) return err; if ((err = e100_phy_init(nic))) @@ -2155,7 +2155,7 @@ static int e100_rx_alloc_list(struct nic nic->rx_to_use = nic->rx_to_clean = NULL; nic->ru_running = RU_UNINITIALIZED; - if (!(nic->rxs = kcalloc(count, sizeof(struct rx), GFP_ATOMIC))) + if (!(nic->rxs = kcalloc(count, sizeof(struct rx), GFP_KERNEL))) return -ENOMEM; for (rx = nic->rxs, i = 0; i < count; rx++, i++) {