Re: [PATCH] qedi: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in qedi_process_tmf_resp

[Rangankar, Manish]

On 13/12/17 2:41 PM, "Jia-Ju Bai" <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The driver may sleep under a spinlock.
>The function call path is:
>qedi_cpu_offline (acquire the spinlock)
>  qedi_fp_process_cqes
>    qedi_mtask_completion
>      qedi_process_tmf_resp
>        kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
>
>To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
>
>This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code
>review.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
>---
> drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c |    2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c b/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c
>index bd302d3..20a9259 100644
>--- a/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c
>+++ b/drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_fw.c
>@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static void qedi_process_tmf_resp(struct qedi_ctx
>*qedi,
> 	cqe_tmp_response = &cqe->cqe_common.iscsi_hdr.tmf_response;
> 
> 	qedi_cmd = task->dd_data;
>-	qedi_cmd->tmf_resp_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*resp_hdr_ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
>+	qedi_cmd->tmf_resp_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*resp_hdr_ptr), GFP_ATOMIC);
> 	if (!qedi_cmd->tmf_resp_buf) {
> 		QEDI_ERR(&qedi->dbg_ctx,
> 			 "Failed to allocate resp buf, cid=0x%x\n",
>-- 
>1.7.9.5

Thanks,

Acked-by: Manish Rangankar <Manish.Rangankar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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