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mac80211: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when possible

Message ID 194a0e2ff00c3fae88cc9fba47431747360c8242.1645345378.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
State New
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Series mac80211: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when possible | expand

Commit Message

Christophe JAILLET Feb. 20, 2022, 8:23 a.m. UTC 
Previous memory allocations in this function already use GFP_KERNEL, so
use __dev_alloc_skb() and an explicit GFP_KERNEL instead of an implicit
GFP_ATOMIC.

This gives more opportunities of successful allocation.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
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 net/mac80211/mesh.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 1d3b4ad32965..5275f4f32a78 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@  ieee80211_mesh_build_beacon(struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh)
 
 	bcn = kzalloc(sizeof(*bcn) + head_len + tail_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	/* need an skb for IE builders to operate on */
-	skb = dev_alloc_skb(max(head_len, tail_len));
+	skb = __dev_alloc_skb(max(head_len, tail_len), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!bcn || !skb)
 		goto out_free;