[PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in issue_deauth_ex()

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Fri Sep 14 2018 - 22:49:59 EST


The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 are:

[FUNC] msleep
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 3805:
msleep in issue_deauth_ex
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 6336:
issue_deauth_ex in disconnect_hdl
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c, 963:
disconnect_hdl in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 506:
rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_set_802_11_disassociate
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 501:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_set_802_11_disassociate

[FUNC] msleep
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 3805:
msleep in issue_deauth_ex
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 6336:
issue_deauth_ex in disconnect_hdl
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c, 963:
disconnect_hdl in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c, 2256:
rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_select_and_join_from_scanned_queue
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c, 2204:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_select_and_join_from_scanned_queue

To fix this bug, msleep() is replaced with mdelay().

This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
index 0952d15f6d40..bf055935ef65 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
@@ -3796,7 +3796,7 @@ int issue_deauth_ex(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *da, unsigned short reason, int
break;

if (i < try_cnt && wait_ms > 0 && ret == _FAIL)
- msleep(wait_ms);
+ mdelay(wait_ms);

} while ((i < try_cnt) && ((ret == _FAIL) || (wait_ms == 0)));

--
2.17.0