This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash
to the 4.9-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:
xen-netback-use-gfp_atomic-to-allocate-hash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017
From: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:50:20 +0000
Subject: xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash
From: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9f674e48c13dcbc31ac903433727837795b81efe ]
Allocation of new_hash, inside xenvif_new_hash(), always happen
in softirq context, so use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL for new
hash allocation.
Signed-off-by: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void xenvif_add_hash(struct xenvi
unsigned long flags;
bool found;
- new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!new)
return;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anoob.soman@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/xen-netback-use-gfp_atomic-to-allocate-hash.patch