The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 are:

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c, 633: 
        kzalloc in lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6729: 
        [FUNC_PTR]lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc in lpfc_post_rq_buffer
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6723: 
        _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lpfc_post_rq_buffer

[FUNC] dma_pool_alloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c, 637: 
        dma_pool_alloc in lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6729: 
        [FUNC_PTR]lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc in lpfc_post_rq_buffer
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6723: 
        _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lpfc_post_rq_buffer

[FUNC] dma_pool_alloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c, 643: 
        dma_pool_alloc in lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6729: 
        [FUNC_PTR]lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc in lpfc_post_rq_buffer
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c, 6723: 
        _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lpfc_post_rq_buffer

Note that [FUNC_PTR] means a function pointer call is used.

To fix these bugs, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

These bugs are found by my static analysis tool DSAC.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c
index 9c22a2c93462..20359e5d0016 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c
@@ -631,18 +631,18 @@ lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc(struct lpfc_hba *phba)
 {
        struct rqb_dmabuf *dma_buf;
 
-       dma_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rqb_dmabuf), GFP_KERNEL);
+       dma_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rqb_dmabuf), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!dma_buf)
                return NULL;
 
-       dma_buf->hbuf.virt = dma_pool_alloc(phba->lpfc_hrb_pool, GFP_KERNEL,
+       dma_buf->hbuf.virt = dma_pool_alloc(phba->lpfc_hrb_pool, GFP_ATOMIC,
                                            &dma_buf->hbuf.phys);
        if (!dma_buf->hbuf.virt) {
                kfree(dma_buf);
                return NULL;
        }
        dma_buf->dbuf.virt = dma_pool_alloc(phba->lpfc_nvmet_drb_pool,
-                                           GFP_KERNEL, &dma_buf->dbuf.phys);
+                                           GFP_ATOMIC, &dma_buf->dbuf.phys);
        if (!dma_buf->dbuf.virt) {
                dma_pool_free(phba->lpfc_hrb_pool, dma_buf->hbuf.virt,
                              dma_buf->hbuf.phys);
-- 
2.17.0

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