[PATCH] acpi: osl: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in acpi_os_execute

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Thu Jan 25 2018 - 05:09:21 EST


After checking all possible call chains to acpi_os_execute here,
my tool finds that acpi_os_execute is never called in atomic context.
And acpi_os_execute calls acpi_debugger_create_thread
which calls mutex_lock,
thus it proves again that acpi_os_execute can
call functions which may sleep.
Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/osl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
index 3bb46cb..8ee605e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_os_execute(acpi_execute_type type,
* having a static work_struct.
*/

- dpc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_os_dpc), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ dpc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_os_dpc), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dpc)
return AE_NO_MEMORY;

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