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authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>2008-05-07 19:51:51 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-05-21 21:47:44 -0400
commit8566dc3fca470454461b161677a5ae3bb3a8c1b8 (patch)
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mac80211: Fix sleeping allocation under lock in mesh_path_node_copy.
The mesh_path_node_copy() can be called like this: mesh_path_add `- write_lock(&pathtbl_resize_lock); /* ! */ `- mesh_table_grow `- ->copy_node `- mesh_path_node_copy thus, the GFP_KERNEL is not suitable here. The acceptable fix, I suppose, is make this allocation GPF_ATOMIC - the mpath_node being allocated is 4 pointers, i.e. this allocation is small enough to survive even under a moderate memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
index fe1ceeea07f1..1154398eceaa 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static int mesh_path_node_copy(struct hlist_node *p, struct mesh_table *newtbl)
struct mpath_node *node, *new_node;
u32 hash_idx;
- new_node = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mpath_node), GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_node = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mpath_node), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (new_node == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;