[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "USB: mos7720: use GFP_ATOMIC under spinlock" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    USB: mos7720: use GFP_ATOMIC under spinlock

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 01f3e9d995f6c3b524409c5eab6a7c56eda2e54b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:16:59 +0300
Subject: USB: mos7720: use GFP_ATOMIC under spinlock

commit d0bd9a41186e076ea543c397ad8a67a6cf604b55 upstream.

The write_parport_reg_nonblock() function shouldn't sleep because it's
called with spinlocks held.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c
index 397e028..cdb3823 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static int write_parport_reg_nonblock(struct mos7715_parport *mos_parport,
 		kfree(urbtrack);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	urbtrack->setup = kmalloc(sizeof(*urbtrack->setup), GFP_KERNEL);
+	urbtrack->setup = kmalloc(sizeof(*urbtrack->setup), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!urbtrack->setup) {
 		usb_free_urb(urbtrack->urb);
 		kfree(urbtrack);
--
1.8.1.2