This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: fec: Avoid allocating rx buffer using ATOMIC in ndo_open to the 5.10-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: net-fec-avoid-allocating-rx-buffer-using-atomic-in-n.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ab8133272d4f3c75ef3d9ac4664af29314be343d Author: Michael Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 18 08:20:07 2022 +0200 net: fec: Avoid allocating rx buffer using ATOMIC in ndo_open [ Upstream commit b885aab3d39d1c81709e957324c7fb9aeac02c38 ] Make ndo_open less sensitive to memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518062007.10056-1-michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: a1477dc87dc4 ("net: fec: Restart PPS after link state change") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c index a591ca0b37787..c6d08395a289c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c @@ -2952,7 +2952,7 @@ fec_enet_alloc_rxq_buffers(struct net_device *ndev, unsigned int queue) rxq = fep->rx_queue[queue]; bdp = rxq->bd.base; for (i = 0; i < rxq->bd.ring_size; i++) { - skb = netdev_alloc_skb(ndev, FEC_ENET_RX_FRSIZE); + skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(ndev, FEC_ENET_RX_FRSIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!skb) goto err_alloc;