netdev - [PATCH net] NFC: nci: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by nci_skb

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Date:   Fri, 13 May 2022 21:33:55 +0800
From:   Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, alexander.deucher@....com,
        broonie@...nel.org, Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
Subject: [PATCH net] NFC: nci: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by nci_skb_alloc

There are sleep in atomic context bugs when the request to secure
element of st-nci is timeout. The root cause is that nci_skb_alloc
with GFP_KERNEL parameter is called in st_nci_se_wt_timeout which is
a timer handler. The call paths that could trigger bugs are shown below:

    (interrupt context 1)
st_nci_se_wt_timeout
  nci_hci_send_event
    nci_hci_send_data
      nci_skb_alloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) //may sleep

   (interrupt context 2)
st_nci_se_wt_timeout
  nci_hci_send_event
    nci_hci_send_data
      nci_send_data
        nci_queue_tx_data_frags
          nci_skb_alloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) //may sleep

This patch changes allocation mode of nci_skb_alloc from GFP_KERNEL to
GFP_ATOMIC in order to prevent atomic context sleeping. The GFP_ATOMIC
flag makes memory allocation operation could be used in atomic context.

Fixes: 6a2968aaf50c ("NFC: basic NCI protocol implementation ")
Fixes: 11f54f228643 ("NFC: nci: Add HCI over NCI protocol support")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
---
 net/nfc/nci/data.c | 2 +-
 net/nfc/nci/hci.c  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/data.c b/net/nfc/nci/data.c
index 6055dc9a82a..aa5e712adf0 100644
--- a/net/nfc/nci/data.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/data.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int nci_queue_tx_data_frags(struct nci_dev *ndev,
 
 		skb_frag = nci_skb_alloc(ndev,
 					 (NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE + frag_len),
-					 GFP_KERNEL);
+					 GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (skb_frag == NULL) {
 			rc = -ENOMEM;
 			goto free_exit;
diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/hci.c b/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
index 19703a649b5..78c4b6addf1 100644
--- a/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static int nci_hci_send_data(struct nci_dev *ndev, u8 pipe,
 
 	i = 0;
 	skb = nci_skb_alloc(ndev, conn_info->max_pkt_payload_len +
-			    NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+			    NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static int nci_hci_send_data(struct nci_dev *ndev, u8 pipe,
 		if (i < data_len) {
 			skb = nci_skb_alloc(ndev,
 					    conn_info->max_pkt_payload_len +
-					    NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+					    NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 			if (!skb)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.17.1