From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: baijiaju1990@gmail.com
Cc: mlindner@marvell.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
shemminger@osdl.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] skge: a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in skge_remove
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:34:45 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171212.083445.2256119006373036925.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e8a8196-f0d1-2a82-3632-b882787c4391@gmail.com>
From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:38:12 +0800
> According to drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/skge.c, the driver may sleep
> under a spinlock.
> The function call path is:
> skge_remove (acquire the spinlock)
> free_irq --> may sleep
>
> I do not find a good way to fix it, so I only report.
> This possible bug is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC) and
> checked by my code review.
This was added by:
commit a9e9fd7182332d0cf5f3e601df3e71dd431b70d7
Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Tue Sep 27 13:41:37 2011 -0400
skge: handle irq better on single port card
I think the free_irq() can be moved below the unlock.
Stephen, please take a look.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 8:38 [BUG] skge: a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in skge_remove Jia-Ju Bai
2017-12-12 13:34 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-12-12 18:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-13 1:57 ` David Miller
2017-12-13 5:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-13 7:42 ` Jia-Ju Bai
2017-12-13 16:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-14 3:06 ` Jia-Ju Bai
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