4.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx> Upstream commit 671d773297969bebb1732e1cdc1ec03aa53c6be2 Since it is possible for vnet_event_napi to end up doing vnet_control_pkt_engine -> ... -> vnet_send_attr -> vnet_port_alloc_tx_ring -> ldc_alloc_exp_dring -> kzalloc() (i.e., in softirq context), kzalloc() should be called with GFP_ATOMIC from ldc_alloc_exp_dring. Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c @@ -2313,7 +2313,7 @@ void *ldc_alloc_exp_dring(struct ldc_cha if (len & (8UL - 1)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - buf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!buf) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 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