[PATCH] ibmvscsi: use GFP_KERNEL with dma_alloc_coherent in initialize_event_pool

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Thu Oct 21 14:42:51 AEDT 2021


On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 18:59:09 -0800, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:

> During driver probe we allocate a dma region for our event pool.
> Currently, zero is passed for the gfp_flags parameter. Driver probe
> callbacks run in process context and we hold no locks so we can sleep
> here if necessary.
> 
> Fix by passing GFP_KERNEL explicitly to dma_alloc_coherent().
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.16/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] ibmvscsi: use GFP_KERNEL with dma_alloc_coherent in initialize_event_pool
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/3319a8ba82b9

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering


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