[PATCH V2] hid: hid-core: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in __hid_request()

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Wed Sep 12 2018 - 23:35:13 EST


hid_alloc_report_buf() has to be called with GFP_ATOMIC in
__hid_request(), because there are the following callchains
leading to __hid_request() being an atomic context:

picolcd_send_and_wait (acquire a spinlock)
hid_hw_request
__hid_request
hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)

picolcd_reset (acquire a spinlock)
hid_hw_request
__hid_request
hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)

lg4ff_play (acquire a spinlock)
hid_hw_request
__hid_request
hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)

lg4ff_set_autocenter_ffex (acquire a spinlock)
hid_hw_request
__hid_request
hid_alloc_report_buf(GFP_KERNEL)

This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
* Make the description more human readable.
Thanks Jiri for good advice.
---
drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 3942ee61bd1c..c886af00c8c9 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ void __hid_request(struct hid_device *hid, struct hid_report *report,
int ret;
u32 len;

- buf = hid_alloc_report_buf(report, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = hid_alloc_report_buf(report, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!buf)
return;

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2.17.0