* [PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in issue_deauth_ex()
@ 2018-09-15 2:49 Jia-Ju Bai
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From: Jia-Ju Bai @ 2018-09-15 2:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Cc: devel, linux-kernel, Jia-Ju Bai
The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 are:
[FUNC] msleep
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 3805:
msleep in issue_deauth_ex
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 6336:
issue_deauth_ex in disconnect_hdl
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c, 963:
disconnect_hdl in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 506:
rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_set_802_11_disassociate
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 501:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_set_802_11_disassociate
[FUNC] msleep
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 3805:
msleep in issue_deauth_ex
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 6336:
issue_deauth_ex in disconnect_hdl
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c, 963:
disconnect_hdl in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c, 2256:
rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_select_and_join_from_scanned_queue
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c, 2204:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_select_and_join_from_scanned_queue
To fix this bug, msleep() is replaced with mdelay().
This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
index 0952d15f6d40..bf055935ef65 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
@@ -3796,7 +3796,7 @@ int issue_deauth_ex(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *da, unsigned short reason, int
break;
if (i < try_cnt && wait_ms > 0 && ret == _FAIL)
- msleep(wait_ms);
+ mdelay(wait_ms);
} while ((i < try_cnt) && ((ret == _FAIL) || (wait_ms == 0)));
--
2.17.0
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