Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752255AbdLLJFJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:05:09 -0500 Received: from mail-it0-f68.google.com ([209.85.214.68]:47044 "EHLO mail-it0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750915AbdLLJFG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:05:06 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBou+FMW+AVTqvLeanKlloQJzGRmMQmrcZkOGYaxTwQMC3CWc31XlDgwG1ycNL4cArMz8BXYZcw== From: Jia-Ju Bai Subject: [BUG] wl3501: a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in wl3501_reset To: kvalo@codeaurora.org, mhchen@golf.ccl.itri.org.tw, acme@conectiva.com.br, niemeyer@conectiva.com Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8b0519f9-e5f3-aa73-09be-f399f6a6865a@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:04:52 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 345 Lines: 13 According to drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c, the driver may sleep under a spinlock. The function call path is: wl3501_reset (acquire the spinlock) free_irq --> may sleep I do not find a good way to fix it, so I only report. This possible bug is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC) and checked by my code review. Thanks, Jia-Ju Bai