From 6d3aa7737c36011e5ee28e204db58fbc931755d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Pose <fp@igh-essen.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:40:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed memory allocation while lock is held. Thanks to Esben
Haabendal.
---
devices/generic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/devices/generic.c b/devices/generic.c
index ca5575a2..50dad64a 100644
--- a/devices/generic.c
+++ b/devices/generic.c
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ int __init ec_gen_init_module(void)
for_each_netdev(&init_net, netdev) {
if (netdev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER)
continue;
- desc = kmalloc(sizeof(ec_gen_interface_desc_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+ desc = kmalloc(sizeof(ec_gen_interface_desc_t), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!desc) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
--
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