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input: misc: powermate: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in powermate_alloc_buffers()

Message ID 20180727021723.709-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Series input: misc: powermate: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in powermate_alloc_buffers() | expand

Commit Message

Jia-Ju Bai July 27, 2018, 2:17 a.m. UTC
powermate_alloc_buffers() is never called in atomic context.
It calls usb_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
GFP_ATOMIC 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@gmail.com>
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 drivers/input/misc/powermate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Dmitry Torokhov July 27, 2018, 6:33 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:17:23AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> powermate_alloc_buffers() is never called in atomic context.
> It calls usb_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC, which is not necessary.
> GFP_ATOMIC 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@gmail.com>

Applied, thank you.

> ---
>  drivers/input/misc/powermate.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c b/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c
> index 5c8c79623c87..e8de3aaf9f63 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c
> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static int powermate_input_event(struct input_dev *dev, unsigned int type, unsig
>  static int powermate_alloc_buffers(struct usb_device *udev, struct powermate_device *pm)
>  {
>  	pm->data = usb_alloc_coherent(udev, POWERMATE_PAYLOAD_SIZE_MAX,
> -				      GFP_ATOMIC, &pm->data_dma);
> +				      GFP_KERNEL, &pm->data_dma);
>  	if (!pm->data)
>  		return -1;
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.0
>
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diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c b/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c
index 5c8c79623c87..e8de3aaf9f63 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/powermate.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@  static int powermate_input_event(struct input_dev *dev, unsigned int type, unsig
 static int powermate_alloc_buffers(struct usb_device *udev, struct powermate_device *pm)
 {
 	pm->data = usb_alloc_coherent(udev, POWERMATE_PAYLOAD_SIZE_MAX,
-				      GFP_ATOMIC, &pm->data_dma);
+				      GFP_KERNEL, &pm->data_dma);
 	if (!pm->data)
 		return -1;