[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "USB: opticon: fix non-atomic allocation in write path" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    USB: opticon: fix non-atomic allocation in write path

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 04b6075a5399f79e77523ebe8470cf42d527423a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:07:31 +0100
Subject: USB: opticon: fix non-atomic allocation in write path

commit e681286de221af78fc85db9222b6a203148c005a upstream.

Write may be called from interrupt context so make sure to use
GFP_ATOMIC for all allocations in write.

Fixes: 0d930e51cfe6 ("USB: opticon: Add Opticon OPN2001 write support")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c b/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
index 4856fb7e637e..4b7bfb394a32 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static int opticon_write(struct tty_struct *tty, struct usb_serial_port *port,

 	/* The connected devices do not have a bulk write endpoint,
 	 * to transmit data to de barcode device the control endpoint is used */
-	dr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_ctrlrequest), GFP_NOIO);
+	dr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_ctrlrequest), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!dr) {
 		count = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error_no_dr;
--
2.1.0