[PATCH 4.9 167/177] rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Dec 18 2017 - 11:09:51 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 2bf9806d4228f7a6195f8e03eda0479d2a93b411 ]

The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is:
rtw_surveydone_event_callback(acquire the spinlock)
rtw_createbss_cmd
kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

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

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ u8 rtw_createbss_cmd(struct adapter *pa
else
RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_cmd_c_, _drv_info_, (" createbss for SSid:%s\n", pmlmepriv->assoc_ssid.Ssid));

- pcmd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+ pcmd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!pcmd) {
res = _FAIL;
goto exit;