This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
clocksource: davinci: axe a pointless __GFP_NOFAIL
to the 5.4-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:
clocksource-davinci-axe-a-pointless-__gfp_nofail.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1f77d308061cd7a80d669addae17306f884ac774
Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 9 12:12:26 2020 +0200
clocksource: davinci: axe a pointless __GFP_NOFAIL
[ Upstream commit 4855f2bd91b6e3461af7d795bfe9a40420122131 ]
There is no need to specify __GFP_NOFAIL when allocating memory here, so
axe it.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200409101226.15432-1-christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx
Stable-dep-of: fb73556386e0 ("clocksource/drivers/davinci: Fix memory leak in davinci_timer_register when init fails")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c
index aae9383682303..bb4eee31ae082 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ int __init davinci_timer_register(struct clk *clk,
davinci_timer_init(base);
tick_rate = clk_get_rate(clk);
- clockevent = kzalloc(sizeof(*clockevent), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+ clockevent = kzalloc(sizeof(*clockevent), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!clockevent)
return -ENOMEM;
