From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: baijiaju1990@163.com, alexander.levin@microsoft.com,
davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "mISDN: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:04:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1523351079105188@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mISDN: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
misdn-fix-a-sleep-in-atomic-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:08:25 +0800
Subject: mISDN: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug
From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
[ Upstream commit 93818da5eed63fbc17b64080406ea53b86b23309 ]
The driver may sleep under a read spin lock, and the function call path is:
send_socklist (acquire the lock by read_lock)
skb_copy(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
To fix it, the "GFP_KERNEL" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC".
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/isdn/mISDN/stack.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/stack.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/stack.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ send_socklist(struct mISDN_sock_list *sl
if (sk->sk_state != MISDN_BOUND)
continue;
if (!cskb)
- cskb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cskb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!cskb) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s no skb\n", __func__);
break;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from baijiaju1990@163.com are
queue-4.4/misdn-fix-a-sleep-in-atomic-bug.patch
queue-4.4/qlcnic-fix-a-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-qlcnic_82xx_hw_write_wx_2m-and-qlcnic_82xx_hw_read_wx_2m.patch
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