From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 0edfad5959df7379c9e554fbe8ba264ae232d321 upstream. 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: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c index 27bb55485472..7ef28625c199 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c @@ -2307,7 +2307,7 @@ void *ldc_alloc_exp_dring(struct ldc_channel *lp, unsigned int len, if (len & (8UL - 1)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - buf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!buf) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.4.6 -- 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