This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: mos7840: fix non-atomic allocation in write path to the 4.7-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: usb-serial-mos7840-fix-non-atomic-allocation-in-write-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3b7c7e52efda0d4640060de747768360ba70a7c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 01:05:09 +0300 Subject: USB: serial: mos7840: fix non-atomic allocation in write path From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> commit 3b7c7e52efda0d4640060de747768360ba70a7c0 upstream. There is an allocation with GFP_KERNEL flag in mos7840_write(), while it may be called from interrupt context. Follow-up for commit 191252837626 ("USB: kobil_sct: fix non-atomic allocation in write path") Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c @@ -1340,8 +1340,8 @@ static int mos7840_write(struct tty_stru } if (urb->transfer_buffer == NULL) { - urb->transfer_buffer = - kmalloc(URB_TRANSFER_BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + urb->transfer_buffer = kmalloc(URB_TRANSFER_BUFFER_SIZE, + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!urb->transfer_buffer) goto exit; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/usb-serial-mos7840-fix-non-atomic-allocation-in-write-path.patch queue-4.7/usb-serial-mos7720-fix-non-atomic-allocation-in-write-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html