mac80211_hwsim: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in hwsim_get_radio_nl
authorJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:26:36 +0000 (17:26 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 3 Mar 2018 09:23:22 +0000 (10:23 +0100)
commitad176934842636d8b1d23298fb90d10a97e4c6f7
tree35b2a30c15b25928af4203610da55b3c7bce27d8
parent5330add6da101da85ef4d1dcf31bf2e1b3252fc8
mac80211_hwsim: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in hwsim_get_radio_nl

[ Upstream commit 162bd5e5fd921785077b5862d8f2ffabe2fe11e5 ]

The driver may sleep under a spinlock.
The function call path is:
hwsim_get_radio_nl (acquire the spinlock)
  nlmsg_new(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c