[Xen-devel] [PATCH net] xen-netback: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate hash

[Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Allocation of new_hash, inside xenvif_new_hash(), always happen
in softirq context, so use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL for new
hash allocation.

Signed-off-by: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
index e8c5ddd..3c4c58b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void xenvif_add_hash(struct xenvif *vif, const u8 *tag,
        unsigned long flags;
        bool found;
 
-       new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+       new = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!new)
                return;
 
-- 
2.7.4


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