drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback()
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Sat, 9 Apr 2022 06:18:35 +0000 (14:18 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:36:20 +0000 (18:36 +0200)
commitf89f6c3ebf69623b8ea48200bd690e9e210335a1
treeb5c6f9a774e6e9e88152caea6d155cd04c2b7f3e
parentb10e1171341c61cad3004307ddf8ae8004fd207c
drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback()

[ Upstream commit cc7ad0d77b51c872d629bcd98aea463a3c4109e7 ]

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

   (Thread 1)                  |      (Thread 2)
                               | _set_timer()
rtw_surveydone_event_callback()|  mod_timer()
 spin_lock_bh() //(1)          |  (wait a time)
 ...                           | rtw_scan_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_surveydone_event_callback() 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() in
rtw_scan_timeout_handler() to spin_lock_irq(). Otherwise,
spin_lock_bh() will also cause deadlock() in timer handler.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220409061836.60529-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c