USB: Don't use GFP_KERNEL while we cannot reset a storage device
Memory allocations with GFP_KERNEL can cause IO to a storage
device which can fail resulting in a need to reset the device.
Therefore GFP_KERNEL cannot be safely used between usb_lock_device()
and usb_unlock_device(). Replace by GFP_NOIO.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
index 1b99484..9bc95fe 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -906,11 +906,11 @@
if (index <= 0)
return NULL;
- buf = kmalloc(MAX_USB_STRING_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(MAX_USB_STRING_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
if (buf) {
len = usb_string(udev, index, buf, MAX_USB_STRING_SIZE);
if (len > 0) {
- smallbuf = kmalloc(++len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ smallbuf = kmalloc(++len, GFP_NOIO);
if (!smallbuf)
return buf;
memcpy(smallbuf, buf, len);
@@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@
if (cp) {
nintf = cp->desc.bNumInterfaces;
new_interfaces = kmalloc(nintf * sizeof(*new_interfaces),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_NOIO);
if (!new_interfaces) {
dev_err(&dev->dev, "Out of memory\n");
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@
for (; n < nintf; ++n) {
new_interfaces[n] = kzalloc(
sizeof(struct usb_interface),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_NOIO);
if (!new_interfaces[n]) {
dev_err(&dev->dev, "Out of memory\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;