From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cadence: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in macb_halt_tx() Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20180902.160538.1996490624543458172.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180901121105.436-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nicolas.ferre@microchip.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: baijiaju1990@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180901121105.436-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jia-Ju Bai Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 20:11:05 +0800 > The kernel module may sleep with holding a spinlock. > > The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are: > > [FUNC] usleep_range > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c, 648: > usleep_range in macb_halt_tx > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c, 730: > macb_halt_tx in macb_tx_error_task > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c, 721: > _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in macb_tx_error_task > > To fix this bug, usleep_range() is replaced with udelay(). > > This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC. > > Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai Applied, thanks.