Re: [PATCH net v2] net: wireless: marvell: mwifiex: fix sleep in atomic context bugs

[duoming@zju.edu.cn]

Hello,

On Thu, 19 May 2022 17:58:47 +0300 Kalle Valo wrote:

> > There are sleep in atomic context bugs when uploading device dump
> > data on usb interface. The root cause is that the operations that
> > may sleep are called in fw_dump_timer_fn which is a timer handler.
> > The call tree shows the execution paths that could lead to bugs:
> >
> >    (Interrupt context)
> > fw_dump_timer_fn
> >   mwifiex_upload_device_dump
> >     dev_coredumpv(..., GFP_KERNEL)
> >       dev_coredumpm()
> >         kzalloc(sizeof(*devcd), gfp); //may sleep
> >         dev_set_name
> >           kobject_set_name_vargs
> >             kvasprintf_const(GFP_KERNEL, ...); //may sleep
> >             kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); //may sleep
> >
> > This patch moves the operations that may sleep into a work item.
> > The work item will run in another kernel thread which is in
> > process context to execute the bottom half of the interrupt.
> > So it could prevent atomic context from sleeping.
> >
> > Fixes: f5ecd02a8b20 ("mwifiex: device dump support for usb interface")
> > Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
> 
> mwifiex patches go to wireless-next, not net tree.
> 
> > ---
> > Changes in v2:
> >   - Fix compile problem.
> 
> So you don't even compile test your patches? That's bad and in that case
> I'll just directly drop this. We expect that the patches are properly
> tested.

Ok, I will properly test this patch.

Best regards,
Duoming Zhou