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crypto: user - Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in crypto_report

After checking all possible call chains to crypto_report here,
my tool finds that crypto_report is never called in atomic context.
And crypto_report calls crypto_alg_match which calls down_read,
thus it proves again that crypto_report can call functions which may sleep.
Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.

This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Jia-Ju Bai 7 年之前
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      crypto/crypto_user.c

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crypto/crypto_user.c

@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static int crypto_report(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *in_nlh,
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	err = -ENOMEM;
-	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
 		goto drop_alg;