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net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe()

Message ID 20180727082931.7340-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series net: nvidia: forcedeth: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in nv_probe() | expand

Commit Message

Jia-Ju Bai July 27, 2018, 8:29 a.m. UTC
nv_probe() is never called in atomic context.
It calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller July 27, 2018, 9:12 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:29:31 +0800

> nv_probe() is never called in atomic context.
> It calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>

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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
index 66c665d0b926..a6f1a5a3daea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
@@ -5775,7 +5775,7 @@  static int nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 						      (np->rx_ring_size +
 						      np->tx_ring_size),
 						      &np->ring_addr,
-						      GFP_ATOMIC);
+						      GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!np->rx_ring.orig)
 			goto out_unmap;
 		np->tx_ring.orig = &np->rx_ring.orig[np->rx_ring_size];
@@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@  static int nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 						    sizeof(struct ring_desc_ex) *
 						    (np->rx_ring_size +
 						    np->tx_ring_size),
-						    &np->ring_addr, GFP_ATOMIC);
+						    &np->ring_addr, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!np->rx_ring.ex)
 			goto out_unmap;
 		np->tx_ring.ex = &np->rx_ring.ex[np->rx_ring_size];