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staging: rtl8188eu: use GFP_ATOMIC under spinlock

PATCH New Dan Carpenter 1 participant 1 message Jul 8, 2014

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PATCH 1/1 staging: rtl8188eu: use GFP_ATOMIC under spinlock

We're holding a spinlock here so we can't do sleeping allocations. The call tree is:
rtw_sta_flush() <-- takes spin_lock_bh(&pstapriv->asoc_list_lock); --> ap_free_sta()

      --> rtw_clearstakey_cmd()

Originally these calls were rtw_zmalloc() and then we switched them to kzalloc() in fadbe0cd5292 ('staging: rtl8188eu:Remove rtw_zmalloc(), wrapper for kzalloc()') and that made the bugs show up for my static checker. The original code was buggy as well but my static checker couldn't parse it.

drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c +3 -3
index aeaa873..1222b9b 100644
@@ -1106,20 +1106,20 @@ u8 rtw_clearstakey_cmd(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *psta, u8 entry, u8 enqueue)
 	if (!enqueue) {
 		clear_cam_entry(padapter, entry);
 	} else {
-		ph2c = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+		ph2c = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (ph2c = NULL) {
 			res = _FAIL;
 			goto exit;
 		}
 
-		psetstakey_para = kzalloc(sizeof(struct set_stakey_parm), GFP_KERNEL);
+		psetstakey_para = kzalloc(sizeof(struct set_stakey_parm), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (psetstakey_para = NULL) {
 			kfree(ph2c);
 			res = _FAIL;
 			goto exit;
 		}
 
-		psetstakey_rsp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct set_stakey_rsp), GFP_KERNEL);
+		psetstakey_rsp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct set_stakey_rsp), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (psetstakey_rsp = NULL) {
 			kfree(ph2c);
 			kfree(psetstakey_para);