[PATCH] vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

From: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo
Date: Wed Oct 07 2015 - 20:11:14 EST


At ibm vtpm initialzation, tpm_ibmvtpm_probe() registers its interrupt
handler, ibmvtpm_interrupt, which calls ibmvtpm_crq_process to allocate
memory for rtce buffer. The current code uses 'GFP_KERNEL' as the
type of kernel memory allocation, which resulted a warning at
kernel/lockdep.c. This patch uses 'GFP_ATOMIC' instead so that the
allocation is high-priority and does not sleep.

Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <honclo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
index 27ebf95..3e6a226 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static void ibmvtpm_crq_process(struct ibmvtpm_crq *crq,
}
ibmvtpm->rtce_size = be16_to_cpu(crq->len);
ibmvtpm->rtce_buf = kmalloc(ibmvtpm->rtce_size,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!ibmvtpm->rtce_buf) {
dev_err(ibmvtpm->dev, "Failed to allocate memory for rtce buffer\n");
return;
--
1.7.1

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