From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44496 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758934AbdLRNZM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:25:12 -0500 Subject: Patch "rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_disassoc_cmd" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: baijiaju1990@163.com, alexander.levin@verizon.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:22:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1513603376111186@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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_disassoc_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_disassoc_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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:35 CET 2017 From: Jia-Ju Bai Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 19:54:07 +0800 Subject: rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_disassoc_cmd From: Jia-Ju Bai [ Upstream commit 08880f8e08cbd814e870e9d3ab9530abc1bce226 ] The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is: rtw_set_802_11_bssid(acquire the spinlock) rtw_disassoc_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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ u8 rtw_disassoc_cmd(struct adapter *pada if (enqueue) { /* need enqueue, prepare cmd_obj and enqueue */ - cmdobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmdobj), GFP_KERNEL); + cmdobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmdobj), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!cmdobj) { res = _FAIL; kfree(param); 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