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. 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, -- 2.17.0