[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix two possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in translate_scan()

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Wed Jun 20 2018 - 05:50:42 EST


The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16.7 are:

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 323:
kzalloc in translate_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1554:
translate_scan in rtw_wx_get_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1533:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_wx_get_scan

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 455:
kzalloc in translate_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1554:
translate_scan in rtw_wx_get_scan
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1533:
spin_lock_bh in rtw_wx_get_scan

To fix these bugs, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

These bugs are found by my static analysis tool (DSAC-2) and checked by
my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index b26533983864..7632b8974563 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static char *translate_scan(struct adapter *padapter,
RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_mlme_c_, _drv_info_, ("rtw_wx_get_scan: ssid =%s\n", pnetwork->network.Ssid.Ssid));
RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_mlme_c_, _drv_info_, ("rtw_wx_get_scan: wpa_len =%d rsn_len =%d\n", wpa_len, rsn_len));

- buf = kzalloc(MAX_WPA_IE_LEN*2, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kzalloc(MAX_WPA_IE_LEN*2, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!buf)
return start;
if (wpa_len > 0) {
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static char *translate_scan(struct adapter *padapter,
u8 *buf;
u8 *p, *pos;

- buf = kzalloc(MAX_WPA_IE_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kzalloc(MAX_WPA_IE_LEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!buf)
goto exit;
p = buf;
--
2.17.0