[PATCH 4.14 18/33] NFC: nci: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by nci_skb_alloc

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 23 2022 - 13:12:47 EST


From: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 23dd4581350d4ffa23d58976ec46408f8f4c1e16 ]

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: ed06aeefdac3 ("nfc: st-nci: Rename st21nfcb to st-nci")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220517012530.75714-1-duoming@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/nfc/nci/data.c | 2 +-
net/nfc/nci/hci.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/data.c b/net/nfc/nci/data.c
index 5405d073804c..9e3f9460f14f 100644
--- a/net/nfc/nci/data.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/data.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static int nci_queue_tx_data_frags(struct nci_dev *ndev,

skb_frag = nci_skb_alloc(ndev,
(NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE + frag_len),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_ATOMIC);
if (skb_frag == NULL) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto free_exit;
diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/hci.c b/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
index c972c212e7ca..e5c5cff33236 100644
--- a/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int nci_hci_send_data(struct nci_dev *ndev, u8 pipe,

i = 0;
skb = nci_skb_alloc(ndev, conn_info->max_pkt_payload_len +
- NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int nci_hci_send_data(struct nci_dev *ndev, u8 pipe,
if (i < data_len) {
skb = nci_skb_alloc(ndev,
conn_info->max_pkt_payload_len +
- NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ NCI_DATA_HDR_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;

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2.35.1