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usbnet: fix deadlock in resume

A usbnet device can share a multifunction device
with a storage device. If the storage device is autoresumed
the usbnet devices also needs to be autoresumed. Allocating
memory with GFP_KERNEL can deadlock in this case.

This should go back into all kernels that have
commit 65841fd5132c3941cdf5df09e70df3ed28323212
That is 3.5

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Oliver Neukum 13 years ago
parent
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1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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      drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c

+ 1 - 1
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c

@@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@ int usbnet_resume (struct usb_interface *intf)
 				netif_device_present(dev->net) &&
 				!timer_pending(&dev->delay) &&
 				!test_bit(EVENT_RX_HALT, &dev->flags))
-					rx_alloc_submit(dev, GFP_KERNEL);
+					rx_alloc_submit(dev, GFP_NOIO);
 
 			if (!(dev->txq.qlen >= TX_QLEN(dev)))
 				netif_tx_wake_all_queues(dev->net);