Re: [PATCH net] NFC: nci: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by nci_skb_alloc

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 13/05/2022 15:33, Duoming Zhou wrote:
> There are sleep in atomic context bugs when the request to secure
> element of st-nci is timeout. The root cause is that nci_skb_alloc
> with GFP_KERNEL parameter is called in st_nci_se_wt_timeout which is
> a timer handler. The call paths that could trigger bugs are shown below:
> 
>     (interrupt context 1)
> st_nci_se_wt_timeout
>   nci_hci_send_event
>     nci_hci_send_data
>       nci_skb_alloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) //may sleep
> 
>    (interrupt context 2)
> st_nci_se_wt_timeout
>   nci_hci_send_event
>     nci_hci_send_data
>       nci_send_data
>         nci_queue_tx_data_frags
>           nci_skb_alloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) //may sleep
> 
> This patch changes allocation mode of nci_skb_alloc from GFP_KERNEL to
> GFP_ATOMIC in order to prevent atomic context sleeping. The GFP_ATOMIC
> flag makes memory allocation operation could be used in atomic context.
> 
> Fixes: 6a2968aaf50c ("NFC: basic NCI protocol implementation ")
> Fixes: 11f54f228643 ("NFC: nci: Add HCI over NCI protocol support")
> Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>


Best regards,
Krzysztof