NFC: netlink: fix sleep in atomic bug when firmware download timeout
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Wed, 4 May 2022 05:58:47 +0000 (13:58 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 12 May 2022 10:30:10 +0000 (12:30 +0200)
commit7bd81a05d48942ef2c48630e5e7963b187e95727
treeb3d6a5aa763e512d367c12c66a9e1885b7caee3c
parentb8f2b836e7d0a553b886654e8b3925a85862d2eb
NFC: netlink: fix sleep in atomic bug when firmware download timeout

commit 4071bf121d59944d5cd2238de0642f3d7995a997 upstream.

There are sleep in atomic bug that could cause kernel panic during
firmware download process. The root cause is that nlmsg_new with
GFP_KERNEL parameter is called in fw_dnld_timeout which is a timer
handler. The call trace is shown below:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:265
Call Trace:
kmem_cache_alloc_node
__alloc_skb
nfc_genl_fw_download_done
call_timer_fn
__run_timers.part.0
run_timer_softirq
__do_softirq
...

The nlmsg_new with GFP_KERNEL parameter may sleep during memory
allocation process, and the timer handler is run as the result of
a "software interrupt" that should not call any other function
that could sleep.

This patch changes allocation mode of netlink message from GFP_KERNEL
to GFP_ATOMIC in order to prevent sleep in atomic bug. The GFP_ATOMIC
flag makes memory allocation operation could be used in atomic context.

Fixes: 9674da8759df ("NFC: Add firmware upload netlink command")
Fixes: 9ea7187c53f6 ("NFC: netlink: Rename CMD_FW_UPLOAD to CMD_FW_DOWNLOAD")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220504055847.38026-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/nfc/netlink.c