[PATCH 4.9 03/51] xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash

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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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;
 





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