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>
}
if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_UNDER_SURVEY)) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&pmlmepriv->lock);
del_timer_sync(&pmlmepriv->scan_to_timer);
+ spin_lock_bh(&pmlmepriv->lock);
_clr_fwstate_(pmlmepriv, _FW_UNDER_SURVEY);
}
mlmepriv.scan_to_timer);
struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv = &adapter->mlmepriv;
- spin_lock_bh(&pmlmepriv->lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&pmlmepriv->lock);
_clr_fwstate_(pmlmepriv, _FW_UNDER_SURVEY);
- spin_unlock_bh(&pmlmepriv->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&pmlmepriv->lock);
rtw_indicate_scan_done(adapter, true);
}