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authorArend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>2012-02-09 21:09:06 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-02-22 14:48:52 -0500
commitbcbec9e777cc66fbbeb386c42d8af680fc941da7 (patch)
treea6af0eb34af6057c4a6bef68ac1298cdc874c397 /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211
parent1bb1f38462bcf58cf98d8f7bedf2bfefd394f940 (diff)
downloadlinux-bcbec9e777cc66fbbeb386c42d8af680fc941da7.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c6
1 files 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 e95a883c77da..285fa19e881d 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;