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rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_disassoc_cmd
authorJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Sun, 8 Oct 2017 11:54:07 +0000 (19:54 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:43:35 +0000 (15:43 +0200)
The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is:
rtw_set_802_11_bssid(acquire the spinlock)
  rtw_disassoc_cmd
    kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c

index 9461bce883ea902d9095c05c4b1e1c360f461718..65083a72b4085ddc364c35d605ba4b63c9a8fb51 100644 (file)
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ u8 rtw_disassoc_cmd(struct adapter *padapter, u32 deauth_timeout_ms, bool enqueu
 
        if (enqueue) {
                /* need enqueue, prepare cmd_obj and enqueue */
-               cmdobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmdobj), GFP_KERNEL);
+               cmdobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmdobj), GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (!cmdobj) {
                        res = _FAIL;
                        kfree(param);