Re: [PATCH v2] staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context

[Fabio M. De Francesco]

On Monday, November 1, 2021 4:18:03 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 03:27:32PM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > Use the GFP_ATOMIC flag of kzalloc() with two memory allocation in
> > report_del_sta_event(). This function is called while holding spinlocks,
> > therefore it is not allowed to sleep. With the GFP_ATOMIC type flag, the
> > allocation is high priority and must not sleep.
> > 
> > This issue is detected by Smatch which emits the following warning:
> > "drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c:6848 report_del_sta_event()
> > warn: sleeping in atomic context".
> > 
> > After the change, the post-commit hook output the following message:
> > "CHECK: Prefer kzalloc(sizeof(*pcmd_obj)...) over
> > kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj)...)".
> > 
> > According to the above "CHECK", use the preferred style in the first
> > kzalloc().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > v1->v2: Fix an overlooked error due to an incorrect copy-paste
> > 	of the sizeof() operator.
> 
> What commit does this fix?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
Sorry, Greg. Please let me know if I understand correctly what you are asking 
for...

In v1 I introduced a silly error while copy-pasting "sizeof()" and then I 
fixed it in v2.
  
I think that you mean that I should reword the list of changes from v1 
because I'm not explaining properly why I submitted v2.
  
Is my understanding correct? If so, I have no problem in submitting v3. 

Thank you in advance, 

Fabio

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