netdev - [PATCH] isdn: mISDN: layer2: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in create

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Date:   Sat,  1 Sep 2018 19:57:05 +0800
From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
To:     isdn@...ux-pingi.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] isdn: mISDN: layer2: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in create_l2()

The kernel module may sleep with holding a spinlock.

The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are:

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer2.c, 2126: kzalloc in create_l2
drivers/isdn/mISDN/tei.c, 1054: create_l2 in create_teimgr
drivers/isdn/mISDN/tei.c, 1278: create_teimgr in mgr_ctrl
drivers/isdn/mISDN/tei.c, 1048: [FUNC_PTR]mgr_ctrl in create_teimgr
drivers/isdn/mISDN/tei.c, 1045: _raw_read_lock_irqsave in create_teimgr

Note that [FUNC_PTR] means a function pointer call is used.

To fix this bug, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
---
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer2.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer2.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer2.c
index 9ff0903a0e89..383f31ae4b92 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer2.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer2.c
@@ -2123,7 +2123,7 @@ create_l2(struct mISDNchannel *ch, u_int protocol, u_long options, int tei,
 	struct layer2		*l2;
 	struct channel_req	rq;
 
-	l2 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct layer2), GFP_KERNEL);
+	l2 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct layer2), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!l2) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "kzalloc layer2 failed\n");
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.17.0