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Commit bb52e316 authored by Jia-Ju Bai's avatar Jia-Ju Bai Committed by Boris Ostrovsky
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xen: xen-pciback: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in pcistub_init_device



pcistub_init_device() is never called in atomic context.

The call chain ending up at pcistub_init_device() is:
[1] pcistub_init_device() <- pcistub_seize() <- pcistub_probe()
[2] pcistub_init_device() <- pcistub_init_devices_late() <-
	xen_pcibk_init()
pcistub_probe() is only set as ".probe" in struct pci_driver.
xen_pcibk_init() is is only set as a parameter of module_init().
These functions are not called in atomic context.

Despite never getting called from atomic context,
pcistub_init_device() 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: default avatarJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
parent cc5cd507
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