ipwireless_network_create() is never called in atomic context. The call chain ending up at ipwireless_network_create() is: [1] ipwireless_network_create() <- config_ipwireless() <- ipwireless_attach() ipwireless_attach() is only set as ".probe" in struct pcmcia_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context, ipwireless_network_create() calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which does not sleep for allocation. GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation. This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself. And I also manually check it. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com> --- drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c index c2f9a32..17b04b5 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c +++ b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ void ipwireless_network_packet_received(struct ipw_network *network, struct ipw_network *ipwireless_network_create(struct ipw_hardware *hw) { struct ipw_network *network = - kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipw_network), GFP_ATOMIC); + kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipw_network), GFP_KERNEL); if (!network) return NULL; -- 1.9.1