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media: pci: ivtv: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in ivtv_yuv_init()

PATCH New Jia-Ju Bai 1 participant 1 message Sep 1, 2018

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PATCH 1/1 media: pci: ivtv: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in ivtv_yuv_init()

The driver may sleep in a interrupt handler.

The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are:

[FUNC] kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-yuv.c, 938:
kzalloc in ivtv_yuv_init
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-yuv.c, 960:
ivtv_yuv_init in ivtv_yuv_next_free
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-yuv.c, 1126:
ivtv_yuv_next_free in ivtv_yuv_setup_stream_frame
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-irq.c, 827:
ivtv_yuv_setup_stream_frame in ivtv_irq_dec_data_req
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-irq.c, 1013:
ivtv_irq_dec_data_req in ivtv_irq_handler

To fix this bug, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.

This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.

---
 drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-yuv.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-yuv.c +1 -1
index 44936d6d7c39..1380474519f2 100644
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ static void ivtv_yuv_init(struct ivtv *itv)
 	}
 
 	/* We need a buffer for blanking when Y plane is offset - non-fatal if we can't get one */
-	yi->blanking_ptr = kzalloc(720 * 16, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
+	yi->blanking_ptr = kzalloc(720 * 16, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (yi->blanking_ptr) {
 		yi->blanking_dmaptr = pci_map_single(itv->pdev, yi->blanking_ptr, 720*16, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
 	} else {
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