From: Greg KH <[email protected]> 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> commit ab6f148de28261682d300662e87b9477f7efc95b upstream. A usbnet device can share a multifunction device with a storage device. If the storage device is autoresumed the usbnet devices also needs to be autoresumed. Allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL can deadlock in this case. This should go back into all kernels that have commit 65841fd5132c3941cdf5df09e70df3ed28323212 That is 3.5 Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -1580,7 +1580,7 @@ int usbnet_resume (struct usb_interface netif_device_present(dev->net) && !timer_pending(&dev->delay) && !test_bit(EVENT_RX_HALT, &dev->flags)) - rx_alloc_submit(dev, GFP_KERNEL); + rx_alloc_submit(dev, GFP_NOIO); if (!(dev->txq.qlen >= TX_QLEN(dev))) netif_tx_wake_all_queues(dev->net); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
