From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD29C43334 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:18:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1350730AbiFMMSF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:18:05 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48128 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1358880AbiFMMOX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:14:23 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [145.40.68.75]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C700B54BDE; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 04:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6EC0CB80E5E; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D95E3C3411C; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:02:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1655118123; bh=ss5NCjJvt9POin4Vj0SlpF22PHkI6I1R+GC2c+AlgBo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ckPqXxosa4EYp8o6NaEvdMYzLP6M0wGHWRHGrqm+1TPrwZoIMtMh445iY+Aq6ZEtp 5iwFS7+zFczNl2V80DW1JBJUpyEAocshNBUvApWveARxnAOgJhAFGrMhyclLFQ7L8V VZPeXa06cXA3VrgoL3z9Ak1IYHUsvbynJ4HGxbyU= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Duoming Zhou , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.19 252/287] drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop() Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:11:16 +0200 Message-Id: <20220613094931.655187476@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.36.1 In-Reply-To: <20220613094923.832156175@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20220613094923.832156175@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Duoming Zhou [ Upstream commit 806c7b53414934ba2a39449b31fd1a038e500273 ] There is a deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop(), which is shown below: (Thread 1) | (Thread 2) | ieee80211_send_beacon() ieee80211_beacons_stop() | mod_timer() spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) | (wait a time) ... | ieee80211_send_beacon_cb() del_timer_sync() | spin_lock_irqsave() //(2) (wait timer to stop) | ... We hold ieee->beacon_lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler also need ieee->beacon_lock in position (2) of thread 2. As a result, ieee80211_beacons_stop() will block forever. This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of spin_lock_irqsave(), which could let timer handler to obtain the needed lock. Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220417135407.109536-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c index 212cc9ccbb96..426966a29d31 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c @@ -529,9 +529,9 @@ static void ieee80211_beacons_stop(struct ieee80211_device *ieee) spin_lock_irqsave(&ieee->beacon_lock, flags); ieee->beacon_txing = 0; - del_timer_sync(&ieee->beacon_timer); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ieee->beacon_lock, flags); + del_timer_sync(&ieee->beacon_timer); } void ieee80211_stop_send_beacons(struct ieee80211_device *ieee) -- 2.35.1