After checking all possible call chains to fore200e_send here,
my tool finds that fore200e_send is never called in atomic context.
And this function is assigned to a function pointer "dev->ops->send",
which is only called by vcc_sendmsg (net/atm/common.c)
through vcc->dev->ops->send, and vcc_sendmsg calls schedule,
it indicates that fore200e_send can call functions which may sleep.
Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it 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 <baijiaju1...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/atm/fore200e.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
index 6ebc4e4..f6a5326 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@ int bsq_audit(int where, struct host_bsq* bsq, int
scheme, int magn)
}
if (tx_copy) {
- data = kmalloc(tx_len, GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
+ data = kmalloc(tx_len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
if (data == NULL) {
if (vcc->pop) {
vcc->pop(vcc, skb);
--
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