linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] ssb: Possible sleep-in-atomic bugs in ssb_pcmcia

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Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:09:43 +0200
From:   Michael Büsch <m@...s.ch>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, johannes@...solutions.net,
        dahinds@...rs.sourceforge.net, linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ssb: Possible sleep-in-atomic bugs in ssb_pcmcia_read8

On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 09:29:17 +0800
Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com> wrote:

> According to pcmcia.c, the driver may sleep under a spinlock.
> The function call paths are:
> ssb_pcmcia_read8 (acquire the spinlock)
>    select_core_and_segment
>      ssb_pcmcia_switch_segment
>        ssb_pcmcia_cfg_write
>          pcmcia_write_config_byte
>            pcmcia_access_config (drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c)
>              mutex_lock --> may sleep
> 
> ssb_pcmcia_read8 (acquire the spinlock)
>    select_core_and_segment
>      ssb_pcmcia_switch_segment
>        sssb_pcmcia_cfg_read
>          pcmcia_read_config_byte
>            pcmcia_access_config (drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c)
>              mutex_lock --> may sleep
> 
> A possible fix is to use spinlock instead of mutex lock in 
> pcmcia_access_config in drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c.
> 
> These bugs are found by my static analysis tool and my code review.



Thanks for scanning and your resulting bug notification.
I currently don't have the hardware at hand to develop and test a
proper fix for this.
That said, I'm not so sure anymore why bar_lock is a spinlock instead
of a mutex. It might be possible to convert this to mutex.

I will try to look into this.

-- 
Michael

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