2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Timo=20Ter=C3=A4s?= <[email protected]>

commit d70c673153d42e8aefd5ac296c8159ef222d076b upstream.

The channel callbacks are called directly from vmbus_event_dpc
which runs in tasklet context. These callbacks need to use
GFP_ATOMIC.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16701

Cc: Hank Janssen <[email protected]>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ static void NetVscOnChannelCallback(void
        /* ASSERT(device); */
 
        packet = kzalloc(NETVSC_PACKET_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned char),
-                        GFP_KERNEL);
+                        GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!packet)
                return;
        buffer = packet;


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