linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hid: hid-core: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in __hid

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Date:   Thu, 6 Sep 2018 10:35:14 +0800
From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hid: hid-core: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in
 __hid_request()



On 2018/9/5 16:29, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>
>> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
>>
>> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are:
>>
>> [FUNC] hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)
>> drivers/hid/hid-core.c, 1435:
>> 	hid_alloc_report_buf in __hid_request
>> ./include/linux/hid.h, 1023:
>> 	__hid_request in hid_hw_request
>> drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c, 111:
>> 	hid_hw_request in picolcd_send_and_wait
>> drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c, 100:
>> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in picolcd_send_and_wait
>>
>> [FUNC] hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)
>> drivers/hid/hid-core.c, 1435:
>> 	hid_alloc_report_buf in __hid_request
>> ./include/linux/hid.h, 1023:
>> 	__hid_request in hid_hw_request
>> drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c, 245:
>> 	hid_hw_request in picolcd_reset
>> drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c, 235:
>> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in picolcd_reset
>>
>> [FUNC] hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)
>> drivers/hid/hid-core.c, 1435:
>> 	hid_alloc_report_buf in __hid_request
>> ./include/linux/hid.h, 1023:
>> 	__hid_request in hid_hw_request
>> drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c, 215:
>> 	hid_hw_request in picolcd_fb_reset
>> drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c, 206:
>> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in picolcd_fb_reset
>>
>> [FUNC] hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)
>> drivers/hid/hid-core.c, 1435:
>> 	hid_alloc_report_buf in __hid_request
>> ./include/linux/hid.h, 1023:
>> 	__hid_request in hid_hw_request
>> drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c, 465:
>> 	hid_hw_request in lg4ff_play
>> drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c, 441:
>> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in lg4ff_play
>>
>> To fix this bug, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
>>
>> This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.
> Could you please rewrite the changelog so that it's human readable? The
> above is a bit hard to understand, I think something along the lines of
> "__hid_request() has to be allocating with GFP_ATOMIC because there are
> the following callchains leading to __hid_request() being an atomic
> context: ... a->b->c.._hid_request()" etc.
>

Okay, I will send a new patch.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai