From: Jia-Ju Bai Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 11:54:45 +0000 (+0800) Subject: rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd X-Git-Tag: v4.9.71~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6641d3e307f5b42237a99f2aa961051a71c50393;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd [ 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c index f1f4788dbd86c..318d5b0022726 100644 --- 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 *padapter) 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;