Subject: [PATCH] staging: hv: fix netvsc sleeping while atomic Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:40:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1292578824-14408-1-git-send-email-timo.teras@iki.fi> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Status: O Content-Length: 845 Lines: 29 The channel callbacks are called directly from vmbus_event_dpc which runs in tasklet context. These callbacks need to use GFP_ATOMIC. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16701 Cc: Hank Janssen Cc: Haiyang Zhang Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs --- drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c index 8022781..3784923 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c @@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ static void NetVscOnChannelCallback(void *Context) /* ASSERT(device); */ packet = kzalloc(NETVSC_PACKET_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned char), - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!packet) return; buffer = packet; -- 1.7.1