Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix two possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in translate_scan()

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On 2018/6/20 17:56, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 05:50:16PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16.7 are:

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 323:
		kzalloc in translate_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1554:
		translate_scan in rtw_wx_get_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1533:
		spin_lock_bh in rtw_wx_get_scan

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 455:
		kzalloc in translate_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1554:
		translate_scan in rtw_wx_get_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1533:
		spin_lock_bh in rtw_wx_get_scan

To fix these bugs, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

These bugs are found by my static analysis tool (DSAC-2) and checked by
my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index b26533983864..7632b8974563 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static char *translate_scan(struct adapter *padapter,
  		RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_mlme_c_, _drv_info_, ("rtw_wx_get_scan: ssid =%s\n", pnetwork->network.Ssid.Ssid));
  		RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_mlme_c_, _drv_info_, ("rtw_wx_get_scan: wpa_len =%d rsn_len =%d\n", wpa_len, rsn_len));
- buf = kzalloc(MAX_WPA_IE_LEN*2, GFP_KERNEL);
+		buf = kzalloc(MAX_WPA_IE_LEN*2, GFP_ATOMIC);
  		if (!buf)
  			return start;
Thanks!  It occurs to me that another way to detect this bug is that
one of the allocations in this function already uses GFP_ATOMIC.  It
doesn't normally make sense to mix GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL when there
isn't any locking in the function.

Yes, this pattern is interesting for bug finding :)
But to fix the bugs of this pattern, we need to decide whether GFP_ATOMIC or GFP_KERNEL should be used here.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai
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