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 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 181a9f2ecab0f3b6f0d682a1bc456387e98c68be
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 79d0513bd2828..85c4e27f571b1 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);
