rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd
authorJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Sun, 8 Oct 2017 11:54:45 +0000 (19:54 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:10:35 +0000 (10:10 +0100)
commitf898f36664a5d64a55c1257e55dfacaae6a86bb7
treed65b8e3dcec2c2ca48e269f1fc4b11f05d03eeaf
parentf18b2039d904f344dae779451592814e2c646686
rtl8188eu: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rtw_createbss_cmd

[ Upstream commit 2bf9806d4228f7a6195f8e03eda0479d2a93b411 ]

The driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is:
rtw_surveydone_event_callback(acquire the spinlock)
  rtw_createbss_cmd
    kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c