This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: ks7010: disable bh on tx_dev_lock to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: staging-ks7010-disable-bh-on-tx_dev_lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9986547f626c77d7c69da7914f29c830c3393edc Author: Chengfeng Ye <dg573847474@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 26 16:13:23 2023 +0000 staging: ks7010: disable bh on tx_dev_lock [ Upstream commit 058cbee52ccd7be77e373d31a4f14670cfd32018 ] As &priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock is also acquired by xmit callback which could be call from timer under softirq context, use spin_lock_bh() on it to prevent potential deadlock. hostif_sme_work() --> hostif_sme_set_pmksa() --> hostif_mib_set_request() --> ks_wlan_hw_tx() --> spin_lock(&priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock) ks_wlan_start_xmit() --> hostif_data_request() --> ks_wlan_hw_tx() --> spin_lock(&priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock) Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <dg573847474@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926161323.41928-1-dg573847474@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c index 3fbe223d59b8e..28723db44a8ff 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c @@ -395,9 +395,9 @@ int ks_wlan_hw_tx(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, void *p, unsigned long size, priv->hostt.buff[priv->hostt.qtail] = le16_to_cpu(hdr->event); priv->hostt.qtail = (priv->hostt.qtail + 1) % SME_EVENT_BUFF_SIZE; - spin_lock(&priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock); result = enqueue_txdev(priv, p, size, complete_handler, skb); - spin_unlock(&priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_lock); if (txq_has_space(priv)) queue_delayed_work(priv->wq, &priv->rw_dwork, 0);