drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop()
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:54:07 +0000 (21:54 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:36:20 +0000 (18:36 +0200)
commit042915c1bfedd684c1d98a841794ee203200571a
tree6c8dcb84bbccf2f519c65e3e4a5b272dd8e9abff
parent04a8e39c8c9b4e3d5c3c4f14a629875cc79d232e
drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop()

[ Upstream commit 806c7b53414934ba2a39449b31fd1a038e500273 ]

There is a deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop(), which is shown below:

   (Thread 1)              |      (Thread 2)
                           | ieee80211_send_beacon()
ieee80211_beacons_stop()   |  mod_timer()
 spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) |  (wait a time)
 ...                       | ieee80211_send_beacon_cb()
 del_timer_sync()          |  spin_lock_irqsave() //(2)
 (wait timer to stop)      |  ...

We hold ieee->beacon_lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use
del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler
also need ieee->beacon_lock in position (2) of thread 2.
As a result, ieee80211_beacons_stop() will block forever.

This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of
spin_lock_irqsave(), which could let timer handler to obtain
the needed lock.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220417135407.109536-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c