Staging: batman-adv: Don't allocate icmp packet with GFP_KERNEL
authorSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Sat, 22 May 2010 15:48:47 +0000 (17:48 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 4 Jun 2010 20:38:56 +0000 (13:38 -0700)
A new buffer for a packet is created when a icmp packet is received.
This happens in a context with disabled irq. Thus we are not allowed to
sleep or call function which might sleep. kmalloc must be called with
GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL to ensure that it does not sleep.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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