4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 08880f8e08cbd814e870e9d3ab9530abc1bce226 ] The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is: rtw_set_802_11_bssid(acquire the spinlock) rtw_disassoc_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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ u8 rtw_disassoc_cmd(struct adapter *pada if (enqueue) { /* need enqueue, prepare cmd_obj and enqueue */ - cmdobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmdobj), GFP_KERNEL); + cmdobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmdobj), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!cmdobj) { res = _FAIL; kfree(param);