srmcons: fix kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) inside spinlock

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8341

Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
index 75692320386080c25a730f1e78779b1851f75926..85a821aaceb47d68c822e3b656b471ded8a30d65 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ srmcons_get_private_struct(struct srmcons_private **ps)
        int retval = 0;
 
        if (srmconsp == NULL) {
+               srmconsp = kmalloc(sizeof(*srmconsp), GFP_KERNEL);
                spin_lock_irqsave(&srmconsp_lock, flags);
 
-               srmconsp = kmalloc(sizeof(*srmconsp), GFP_KERNEL);
                if (srmconsp == NULL)
                        retval = -ENOMEM;
                else {