Patch "rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd

to the 4.9-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:
     rtl8188eu-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-rtw_createbss_cmd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Mon Dec 18 14:12:35 CET 2017
From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 19:54:45 +0800
Subject: rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>


[ Upstream commit 2bf9806d4228f7a6195f8e03eda0479d2a93b411 ]

The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is:
rtw_surveydone_event_callback(acquire the spinlock)
  rtw_createbss_cmd
    kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ u8 rtw_createbss_cmd(struct adapter  *pa
 	else
 		RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_cmd_c_, _drv_info_, (" createbss for SSid:%s\n", pmlmepriv->assoc_ssid.Ssid));
 
-	pcmd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+	pcmd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!pcmd) {
 		res = _FAIL;
 		goto exit;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from baijiaju1990@163.com are

queue-4.9/rtl8188eu-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-rtw_createbss_cmd.patch
queue-4.9/rtl8188eu-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-rtw_disassoc_cmd.patch
queue-4.9/vt6655-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-vt6655_suspend.patch