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* [PATCH] uio: fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol()
@ 2019-12-18  9:44 Jia-Ju Bai
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From: Jia-Ju Bai @ 2019-12-18  9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh; +Cc: linux-kernel, Jia-Ju Bai

The driver may sleep while holding a spinlock.
The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:

kernel/irq/manage.c, 523:
	synchronize_irq in disable_irq
drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c, 140: 
	disable_irq in uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol
drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c, 134: 
	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol

synchronize_irq() can sleep at runtime.

To fix this bug, disable_irq() is called without holding the spinlock.

This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c b/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c
index 81c88f7bbbcb..f6ab3f28c838 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c
@@ -132,11 +132,13 @@ static int uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol(struct uio_info *dev_info, s32 irq_on)
 	if (irq_on) {
 		if (test_and_clear_bit(0, &priv->flags))
 			enable_irq(dev_info->irq);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 	} else {
-		if (!test_and_set_bit(0, &priv->flags))
+		if (!test_and_set_bit(0, &priv->flags)) {
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 			disable_irq(dev_info->irq);
+		}
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.17.1


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