2018-06-20 10:03:18

by Jia-Ju Bai

Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in rtw_disassoc_cmd()

The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16.7 are:

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c, 502:
kzalloc in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 256:
rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_set_802_11_ssid
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 235:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_set_802_11_ssid

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c, 502:
kzalloc in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 352:
rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_set_802_11_infrastructure_mode
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 336:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_set_802_11_infrastructure_mode

To fix this bug, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

This bug is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC-2) and checked by
my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
index be8542676adf..f664fc935455 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ u8 rtw_disassoc_cmd(struct adapter *padapter, u32 deauth_timeout_ms, bool enqueu
RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_cmd_c_, _drv_notice_, ("+%s\n", __func__));

/* prepare cmd parameter */
- param = kzalloc(sizeof(*param), GFP_KERNEL);
+ param = kzalloc(sizeof(*param), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!param) {
res = _FAIL;
goto exit;
--
2.17.0

2018-06-20 10:13:37

by Dan Carpenter

Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in rtw_disassoc_cmd()

Thanks!

regards,
dan carpenter