Re: sleeping function call in 2.5.65-bk

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 15:41:31 EST


On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 01:44, dan carpenter wrote:
> On Sunday 23 March 2003 05:30 pm, Brian Gerst wrote:
> >
> > The fbcon driver is calling kmalloc in interrupt context without
> > GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> Good call. This is compile tested only.

It was wrong before its now even more wrong. Suppose the allocation
fails. Previously that was wildly improbable (but crashed) now its
likely (and crashes0

This code has bigger issues

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