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> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c index 9461bce..430b8eb 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ u8 rtw_createbss_cmd(struct adapter *padapter) 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; -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel