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brcmsmac: allocate ucode with GFP_KERNEL

Message ID 20180316154149.16891-1-tiwai@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit b1c2d0f2507bf56d9f4dbd46dc4b99240fbd187c
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Takashi Iwai March 16, 2018, 3:41 p.m. UTC
The brcms_ucode_init_buf() duplicates the ucode chunks via kmemdup()
with GFP_ATOMIC as a precondition of wl->lock acquired.  This caused
allocation failures sometimes as reported in the bugzilla below.

When looking at the the real usage, one can find that it's called
solely from brcms_request_fw(), and it's obviously outside the lock.
Hence we can use GFP_KERNEL there safely for avoiding such allocation
errors.

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085174
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Arend van Spriel March 16, 2018, 8:50 p.m. UTC | #1
On 3/16/2018 4:41 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The brcms_ucode_init_buf() duplicates the ucode chunks via kmemdup()
> with GFP_ATOMIC as a precondition of wl->lock acquired.  This caused
> allocation failures sometimes as reported in the bugzilla below.
>
> When looking at the the real usage, one can find that it's called
> solely from brcms_request_fw(), and it's obviously outside the lock.
> Hence we can use GFP_KERNEL there safely for avoiding such allocation
> errors.
>
> Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085174

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Kalle Valo March 27, 2018, 9:09 a.m. UTC | #2
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> The brcms_ucode_init_buf() duplicates the ucode chunks via kmemdup()
> with GFP_ATOMIC as a precondition of wl->lock acquired.  This caused
> allocation failures sometimes as reported in the bugzilla below.
> 
> When looking at the the real usage, one can find that it's called
> solely from brcms_request_fw(), and it's obviously outside the lock.
> Hence we can use GFP_KERNEL there safely for avoiding such allocation
> errors.
> 
> Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085174
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

b1c2d0f2507b brcmsmac: allocate ucode with GFP_KERNEL
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
index ddfdfe177e24..a14fccf8a902 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@  void brcms_free_timer(struct brcms_timer *t)
 }
 
 /*
- * precondition: perimeter lock has been acquired
+ * precondition: no locking required
  */
 int brcms_ucode_init_buf(struct brcms_info *wl, void **pbuf, u32 idx)
 {
@@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@  int brcms_ucode_init_buf(struct brcms_info *wl, void **pbuf, u32 idx)
 			if (le32_to_cpu(hdr->idx) == idx) {
 				pdata = wl->fw.fw_bin[i]->data +
 					le32_to_cpu(hdr->offset);
-				*pbuf = kmemdup(pdata, len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+				*pbuf = kmemdup(pdata, len, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (*pbuf == NULL)
 					goto fail;