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