Re: [PATCH 3/4] net: usb: rtl8150: use usb_control_msg_recv() and usb_control_msg_send()

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Sep 24 2020 - 12:00:53 EST


On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 06:40:26PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote:
> On 20-09-24 13:09:05, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 23.09.2020, 17:48 +0300 schrieb Petko Manolov:
> >
> > > One possible fix is to add yet another argument to usb_control_msg_recv(),
> > > which would be the GFP_XYZ flag to pass on to kmemdup(). Up to Greg, of
> > > course.
> >
> > submitted. The problem is those usages that are very hard to trace. I'd
> > dislike to just slab GFP_NOIO on them for no obvious reason.
>
> Do you mean you submitted a patch for usb_control_msg_recv() (because i don't
> see it on linux-netdev) or i'm reading this all wrong?

It's on the linux-usb list:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923134348.23862-1-oneukum@xxxxxxxx