Re: [PATCH v2] usb: cdc-wdm: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in service_outstanding_interrupt()

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue Sep 11 2018 - 03:49:45 EST


On 2018-09-01 16:12:10 [+0800], Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> wdm_in_callback() is a completion handler function for the USB driver.
> So it should not sleep. But it calls service_outstanding_interrupt(),
> which calls usb_submit_urb() with GFP_KERNEL.

At which point does wdm_in_callback() invoke
service_outstanding_interrupt()? I don't see it. I see one invocation
from wdm_read() and another from service_interrupt_work().

Also, if that would be the case, then spin_unlock_irq() in an USB
completion handler (which might run in IRQ context with interrupts
disabled) would be wrong.

> To fix this bug, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> * Add more description.
> ---
> drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c
> index a0d284ef3f40..632a2bfabc08 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c
> @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static int service_outstanding_interrupt(struct wdm_device *desc)
>
> set_bit(WDM_RESPONDING, &desc->flags);
> spin_unlock_irq(&desc->iuspin);
> - rv = usb_submit_urb(desc->response, GFP_KERNEL);
> + rv = usb_submit_urb(desc->response, GFP_ATOMIC);
> spin_lock_irq(&desc->iuspin);
> if (rv) {
> dev_err(&desc->intf->dev,

Sebastian