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authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>2022-04-17 21:54:07 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-06-14 16:59:36 +0200
commitb465bb2ebf666116c1ac745cb80c65154dc0d27e (patch)
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drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop()
[ Upstream commit 806c7b53414934ba2a39449b31fd1a038e500273 ] There is a deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop(), which is shown below: (Thread 1) | (Thread 2) | ieee80211_send_beacon() ieee80211_beacons_stop() | mod_timer() spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) | (wait a time) ... | ieee80211_send_beacon_cb() del_timer_sync() | spin_lock_irqsave() //(2) (wait timer to stop) | ... We hold ieee->beacon_lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler also need ieee->beacon_lock in position (2) of thread 2. As a result, ieee80211_beacons_stop() will block forever. This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of spin_lock_irqsave(), which could let timer handler to obtain the needed lock. Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220417135407.109536-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
index 212cc9ccbb96..426966a29d31 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
@@ -529,9 +529,9 @@ static void ieee80211_beacons_stop(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)
spin_lock_irqsave(&ieee->beacon_lock, flags);
ieee->beacon_txing = 0;
- del_timer_sync(&ieee->beacon_timer);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ieee->beacon_lock, flags);
+ del_timer_sync(&ieee->beacon_timer);
}
void ieee80211_stop_send_beacons(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)