drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Fix deadlock in rtllib_beacons_stop()
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:16:41 +0000 (22:16 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:47:24 +0000 (18:47 +0200)
commit9b6bdbd9337de3917945847bde262a34a87a6303
tree23c00adc821b174c311deb2c4a3b6239f1c6b353
parent806c7b53414934ba2a39449b31fd1a038e500273
drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Fix deadlock in rtllib_beacons_stop()

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

   (Thread 1)              |      (Thread 2)
                           | rtllib_send_beacon()
rtllib_beacons_stop()      |  mod_timer()
 spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) |  (wait a time)
 ...                       | rtllib_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, rtllib_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/20220417141641.124388-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c