[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt31.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 222c615d7fee6a14660b0e5b8bb982056bd47988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Hon Ching \\\\(Vicky\\\\) Lo" <honclo at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:11:51 -0400
Subject: vTPM: fix memory allocation flag for rtce buffer at kernel boot

commit 60ecd86c4d985750efa0ea3d8610972b09951715 upstream.

At ibm vtpm initialzation, tpm_ibmvtpm_probe() registers its interrupt
handler, ibmvtpm_interrupt, which calls ibmvtpm_crq_process to allocate
memory for rtce buffer.  The current code uses 'GFP_KERNEL' as the
type of kernel memory allocation, which resulted a warning at
kernel/lockdep.c.  This patch uses 'GFP_ATOMIC' instead so that the
allocation is high-priority and does not sleep.

Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <honclo at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
index 3802733..07119a3 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static void ibmvtpm_crq_process(struct ibmvtpm_crq *crq,
 			}
 			ibmvtpm->rtce_size = be16_to_cpu(crq->len);
 			ibmvtpm->rtce_buf = kmalloc(ibmvtpm->rtce_size,
-						    GFP_KERNEL);
+						    GFP_ATOMIC);
 			if (!ibmvtpm->rtce_buf) {
 				dev_err(ibmvtpm->dev, "Failed to allocate memory for rtce buffer\n");
 				return;
--
1.9.1