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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-05-06 14:50:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-07 12:12:58 -0700
commit2af0bc94a665f22975de11bddcf6c57907ce8255 (patch)
treeaa5fb995f34ccdda2b05a0af6380f6aa5814be62
parented58a593dcf6bb9853f711e56f8618f84b7b8cb2 (diff)
srmcons: fix kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) inside spinlock
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8341 Cc: <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
index 75692320386..85a821aaceb 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ srmcons_get_private_struct(struct srmcons_private **ps)
int retval = 0;
if (srmconsp == NULL) {
+ srmconsp = kmalloc(sizeof(*srmconsp), GFP_KERNEL);
spin_lock_irqsave(&srmconsp_lock, flags);
- srmconsp = kmalloc(sizeof(*srmconsp), GFP_KERNEL);
if (srmconsp == NULL)
retval = -ENOMEM;
else {