st_probe() is never called in atomic context.
st_probe() is only set as ".probe" in struct scsi_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context,
st_probe() 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
---
drivers/scsi/st.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index 94e402e..1da42f3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -4290,7 +4290,7 @@ static int st_probe(struct device *dev)
goto out_buffer_free;
}
- tpnt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scsi_tape), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ tpnt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scsi_tape), GFP_KERNEL);
if (tpnt == NULL) {
sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, SDp,
"st: Can't allocate device descriptor.\n");
--
1.9.1
