[PATCH 1/6] ASoC: soc-pcm: use GFP_ATOMIC for dpcm structure

Pierre-Louis Bossart pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com
Tue Dec 7 18:37:40 CET 2021


We allocate a structure in dpcm_be_connect(), which may be called in
atomic context. Using GFP_KERNEL is not quite right, we have to use
GFP_ATOMIC to prevent the allocator from sleeping.

Suggested-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan at linux.intel.com>
---
 sound/soc/soc-pcm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
index 3b4412183344..f66808dfb508 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ static int dpcm_be_connect(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *fe,
 			return 0;
 	}
 
-	dpcm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct snd_soc_dpcm), GFP_KERNEL);
+	dpcm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct snd_soc_dpcm), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!dpcm)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.25.1



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