Bug 8343

Summary:	irda_device_dongle_init() calls kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) while a spinlock is held
Product:	Networking	Reporter:	Matthias Kaehlcke (matthias.kaehlcke)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme)
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	samuel
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.20	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Matthias Kaehlcke 2007-04-16 14:37:32 UTC

Problem Description:

irda_device_dongle_init() in ./net/irda/irda_device.c calls kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
while the spinlock dongles->hb_spinlock is held. this should not be done as
kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) might sleep

Comment 1 Andrew Morton 2007-04-20 14:33:32 UTC

I queued a fix