Re: [PATCH] net: socionext: Fix two sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in ave_rxfifo_reset()

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Sep 17 2018 - 22:03:11 EST


From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 12:02:46 +0800

> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 are:
>
> [FUNC] usleep_range
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 892:
> usleep_range in ave_rxfifo_reset
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 932:
> ave_rxfifo_reset in ave_irq_handler
>
> [FUNC] usleep_range
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 888:
> usleep_range in ave_rxfifo_reset
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 932:
> ave_rxfifo_reset in ave_irq_handler
>
> To fix these bugs, usleep_range() is replaced with udelay().
>
> These bugs are found by my static analysis tool DSAC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next.