scsi: st: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in st_probe
st_probe() is never called in atomic context. st_probe() is only set as
".probe" in struct scsi_driver.
Despite never getting called from atomic context, st_probe() calls
kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, which does not sleep for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, which
can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation.
This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
And I also manually check it.
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index 6c39948..4c7d39b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -4290,7 +4290,7 @@ static int st_probe(struct device *dev)
goto out_buffer_free;
}
- tpnt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scsi_tape), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ tpnt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scsi_tape), GFP_KERNEL);
if (tpnt == NULL) {
sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, SDp,
"st: Can't allocate device descriptor.\n");