This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ice: Don't use GFP_KERNEL in atomic context to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ice-don-t-use-gfp_kernel-in-atomic-context.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0a49104e81477d79a24b3242faed84331a3c6558 Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jan 16 19:46:20 2022 +0100 ice: Don't use GFP_KERNEL in atomic context [ Upstream commit 3d97f1afd8d831e0c0dc1157418f94b8faa97b54 ] ice_misc_intr() is an irq handler. It should not sleep. Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL when allocating some memory. Fixes: 348048e724a0 ("ice: Implement iidc operations") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Leszek Kaliszczuk <leszek.kaliszczuk@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c index d6ee62ae4480..137a054dd1e3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c @@ -2874,7 +2874,7 @@ static irqreturn_t ice_misc_intr(int __always_unused irq, void *data) struct iidc_event *event; ena_mask &= ~ICE_AUX_CRIT_ERR; - event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL); + event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_ATOMIC); if (event) { set_bit(IIDC_EVENT_CRIT_ERR, event->type); /* report the entire OICR value to AUX driver */