drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback()
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Sat, 9 Apr 2022 06:18:35 +0000 (14:18 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:50:35 +0000 (08:50 +0200)
commitcc7ad0d77b51c872d629bcd98aea463a3c4109e7
tree5e1b8611284424ca118ff89f000dd44bd2da7a76
parent45a47f0d22c41d2f611c4a61753a2b9b86373c19
drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback()

There is a deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback(),
which is shown below:

   (Thread 1)                  |      (Thread 2)
                               | _set_timer()
rtw_surveydone_event_callback()|  mod_timer()
 spin_lock_bh() //(1)          |  (wait a time)
 ...                           | rtw_scan_timeout_handler()
 del_timer_sync()              |  spin_lock_bh() //(2)
 (wait timer to stop)          |  ...

We hold pmlmepriv->lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use
del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler
also need pmlmepriv->lock in position (2) of thread 2.
As a result, rtw_surveydone_event_callback() will block forever.

This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of
spin_lock_bh(), which could let timer handler to obtain
the needed lock. What`s more, we change spin_lock_bh() in
rtw_scan_timeout_handler() to spin_lock_irq(). Otherwise,
spin_lock_bh() will also cause deadlock() in timer handler.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220409061836.60529-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c