staging: rtl8192u: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ieee80211_tkip_init
ieee80211_tkip_init() is never called in atomic context. ieee80211_tkip_init() is only set as ".init" in struct ieee80211_crypto_ops. The call chains ending up at "->init" function are: [1] ->init() <- ieee80211_wpa_set_encryption() <- ieee80211_wpa_supplicant_ioctl() [2] ->init() <- ieee80211_wx_set_encode_ext_rsl() <- r8192_wx_set_enc_ext() [3] ->init() <- ieee80211_wx_set_encode_rsl() <- r8192_wx_set_enc() ieee80211_wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), r8192_wx_set_enc_ext() and r8192_wx_set_enc() call mutex_lock(), which indicates these functions are not called in atomic context. Despite never getting called from atomic context, ieee80211_tkip_init() 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 <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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