drivers: staging: rtl8192bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Sat, 9 Apr 2022 06:49:53 +0000 (14:49 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:50:36 +0000 (08:50 +0200)
commit041879b12ddb0c6c83ed9c0bdd10dc82a056f2fc
treeb9164df7182b689e9b8a77a3045133d9b8aed088
parentcc7ad0d77b51c872d629bcd98aea463a3c4109e7
drivers: staging: rtl8192bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()

There is a deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle(), which is shown
below:

   (Thread 1)                |      (Thread 2)
                             | _set_timer()
rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()|  mod_timer()
 spin_lock_bh() //(1)        |  (wait a time)
 ...                         | _rtw_join_timeout_handler()
 del_timer_sync()            |  spin_lock_bh() //(2)
 (wait timer to stop)        |  ...

We hold pmlmepriv->lock in position (1) of thread 1 and
use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler
also need pmlmepriv->lock in position (2) of thread 2.
As a result, rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle() will block forever.

This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of
spin_lock_bh(), which could let timer handler to obtain
the needed lock. What`s more, we change spin_lock_bh() to
spin_lock_irq() in _rtw_join_timeout_handler() in order to
prevent deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220409064953.67420-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c