staging: rtl8192u: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in ieee80211_softmac_init
ieee80211_softmac_init() is never called in atomic context. The call chains ending up at ieee80211_softmac_init() is: [1] ieee80211_softmac_init() <- alloc_ieee80211_rsl() <- rtl8192_usb_probe() rtl8192_usb_probe() is set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver. Despite never getting called from atomic context, ieee80211_softmac_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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