drivers: staging: rtl8192eu: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Sat, 9 Apr 2022 07:21:35 +0000 (15:21 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:50:38 +0000 (08:50 +0200)
commit0fcddf9c7c10202946d5b19409efbdff744fba88
treeb647b3c622d2a38fd3ea218dadbe5a4c4790102f
parent041879b12ddb0c6c83ed9c0bdd10dc82a056f2fc
drivers: staging: rtl8192eu: 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()
                             |  _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/20220409072135.74248-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c