[PATCH] sound/pci/riptide or drivers/base/firmware: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Sun Oct 08 2017 - 22:11:44 EST


The riptide driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is:
snd_riptide_prepare (acquire the spinlock)
setsampleformat
sendcmd
riptide_reset
try_to_load_firmware
request_firmware
_request_firmware (drivers/base/firmware_class.c)
_request_firmware_prepare
kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

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

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 4b57cf5..d89f676 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ static inline void kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs(bool only_kill_custom) { }
struct firmware_buf *buf;
int ret;

- *firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_KERNEL);
+ *firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!firmware) {
dev_err(device, "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n",
__func__);
--
1.7.9.5