linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 167/177] rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss

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Message-Id: <20171218152918.701860489@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:49:50 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 167/177] rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>


[ Upstream commit 2bf9806d4228f7a6195f8e03eda0479d2a93b411 ]

The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is:
rtw_surveydone_event_callback(acquire the spinlock)
  rtw_createbss_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@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ u8 rtw_createbss_cmd(struct adapter  *pa
 	else
 		RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_cmd_c_, _drv_info_, (" createbss for SSid:%s\n", pmlmepriv->assoc_ssid.Ssid));
 
-	pcmd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+	pcmd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!pcmd) {
 		res = _FAIL;
 		goto exit;