Re: [PATCH] pci: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in pci_set_power_state

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 04:17:46 EST


On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:16:20PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> The drivers vt6655 and gma500 call pci_set_power_state under a spinlock, which may sleep.
> The function call paths are:
> gma_power_begin (acquire the spinlock) (drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c)
> gma_resume_pci
> pci_set_power_state
> __pci_start_power_transition (drivers/pci/pci.c)
> msleep --> may sleep
>
> gma_power_begin (acquire the spinlock) (drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c)
> gma_resume_pci
> pci_enable_device
> pci_enable_device_flags (drivers/pci/pci.c)
> do_pci_enable_device
> pci_set_power_state
> __pci_start_power_transition
> msleep --> may sleep
>
> vt6655_suspend (acquire the spinlock) (drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c)
> pci_set_power_state
> __pci_start_power_transition (drivers/pci/pci.c)
> msleep --> may sleep
>
> To fix these bugs, msleep is replaced with mdelay in __pci_start_power_transition
>
> These bugs are found by my static analysis tool and my code review.

Wait, no, why not fix the callers to not have a spinlock. Those are the
only users of these calls that are doing so incorrectly, don't change
the PCI core for the fault of 2 broken drivers.

thanks,

greg k-h