This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" fmdefrancesco@gmail.com Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 20:18:47 +0100 Subject: staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context

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().

Fixes: 79f712ea994d ("staging: r8188eu: Remove wrappers for kalloc() and kzalloc()") Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver") Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco fmdefrancesco@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211101191847.6749-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c index 5b60e6df5f87..b4820ad2cee7 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c @@ -6847,12 +6847,12 @@ void report_del_sta_event(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *MacAddr, unsi struct mlme_ext_priv *pmlmeext = &padapter->mlmeextpriv; struct cmd_priv *pcmdpriv = &padapter->cmdpriv;

- pcmd_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_KERNEL); + pcmd_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*pcmd_obj), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!pcmd_obj) return;

cmdsz = (sizeof(struct stadel_event) + sizeof(struct C2HEvent_Header)); - pevtcmd = kzalloc(cmdsz, GFP_KERNEL); + pevtcmd = kzalloc(cmdsz, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!pevtcmd) { kfree(pcmd_obj); return;