From 63c4af1259519c6a4528a1efaace68d71223fc36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:09:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] brcm80211: fmac: change allocation flag in brcmf_enq_event() function As the function is called from atomic context it should not do the kzalloc call with GFP_KERNEL. Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c index e95a883c77daa..285fa19e881dd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c @@ -3297,7 +3297,9 @@ static struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q *brcmf_deq_event( } /* -** push event to tail of the queue +* push event to tail of the queue +* +* remark: this function may not sleep as it is called in atomic context. */ static s32 @@ -3307,7 +3309,7 @@ brcmf_enq_event(struct brcmf_cfg80211_priv *cfg_priv, u32 event, struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q *e; s32 err = 0; - e = kzalloc(sizeof(struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q), GFP_KERNEL); + e = kzalloc(sizeof(struct brcmf_cfg80211_event_q), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!e) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.39.5