Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init()

From: Matwey V. Kornilov
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 00:36:53 EST


2016-02-19 2:47 GMT+03:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:29:07PM +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> 2016-02-18 23:21 GMT+03:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> serial8250_em485_init() is supposed to be protected with
>> >> p->port.lock spinlock.
>> >> This may lead to issues when kmalloc sleeps, so it is better to use
>> >> GFP_ATOMIC in this spinlocked context.
>> >>
>> >> Fixes: e490c9144cfa ("tty: Add software emulated RS485 support for 8250")
>> >> Reported-by: <torso.nafi@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Hmm... Can't we put Cyrillic characters to tags as name of a person?
>>
>> I am afraid non-ASCII will break something eventually. I think it
>> would be better to ask Ilias to put his name in proper latin
>> transcription here.
>
> Why, we accept non-ASCII names all the time, why would we not do so?
>
> Please fix up and resend.

Sure, I've just sent v2.
I am used that non-ASCIIs break things, as they did it 20 years ago,
as they do it in 2016. GhostView stole all my Cyrillic characters from
PDF when I tried to embed fonts two days ago .

>
> thansk,
>
> greg k-h
>



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Matwey V. Kornilov.
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