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[PATCH 12/15] brcm80211: fmac: change allocation flag in brcmf_enq_event() function

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As the function is called from atomic context it should not do the
kzalloc call with GFP_KERNEL.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kan Yan <kanyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c  |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
index e95a883..285fa19 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
@@ -3297,7 +3297,9 @@ static struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q *brcmf_deq_event(
 }
 
 /*
-** push event to tail of the queue
+*	push event to tail of the queue
+*
+*	remark: this function may not sleep as it is called in atomic context.
 */
 
 static s32
@@ -3307,7 +3309,7 @@ brcmf_enq_event(struct brcmf_cfg80211_priv *cfg_priv, u32 event,
 	struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q *e;
 	s32 err = 0;
 
-	e = kzalloc(sizeof(struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q), GFP_KERNEL);
+	e = kzalloc(sizeof(struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!e)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
1.7.5.4


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