From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] staging: rtl8192u: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in prism2_wep_init
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:23:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1523363034-30892-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> (raw)
prism2_wep_init() is never called in atomic context.
prism2_wep_init() is only set as ".init" in
struct ieee80211_crypto_ops.
The call chains ending up at "->init" function are:
[1] ->init() <- ieee80211_wpa_set_encryption() <-
ieee80211_wpa_supplicant_ioctl()
[2] ->init() <- ieee80211_wx_set_encode_ext_rsl() <-
r8192_wx_set_enc_ext()
[3] ->init() <- ieee80211_wx_set_encode_rsl() <-
r8192_wx_set_enc()
ieee80211_wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), r8192_wx_set_enc_ext() and
r8192_wx_set_enc() call mutex_lock(), which indicates these functions
are not called in atomic context.
Despite never getting called from atomic context,
prism2_wep_init() calls kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC,
which does not sleep for allocation.
GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL,
which can sleep and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation.
This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
And I also manually check it
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
index 7ba4b07..b9f86be 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static void *prism2_wep_init(int keyidx)
{
struct prism2_wep_data *priv;
- priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!priv)
return NULL;
priv->key_idx = keyidx;
--
1.9.1
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