From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> commit e8f4ae85439f34bec3b0ab69223a41809dab28c9 upstream. The driver may sleep under a spin lock, the function call path is: isdn_ppp_mp_receive (acquire the lock) isdn_ppp_mp_reassembly isdn_ppp_push_higher isdn_ppp_decompress isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_trans isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep To fixed it, the "GFP_KERNEL" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC". Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c index 9c1e8adaf4fc..bf3fbd00a091 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c @@ -2364,7 +2364,7 @@ static struct ippp_ccp_reset_state *isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state(struct ippp_s id); return NULL; } else { - rs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ippp_ccp_reset_state), GFP_KERNEL); + rs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ippp_ccp_reset_state), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!rs) return NULL; rs->state = CCPResetIdle; -- 2.7.4