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stonezdmPaolo Abeni
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NFC: netlink: fix sleep in atomic bug when firmware download timeout
There are sleep in atomic bug that could cause kernel panic during firmware download process. The root cause is that nlmsg_new with GFP_KERNEL parameter is called in fw_dnld_timeout which is a timer handler. The call trace is shown below: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:265 Call Trace: kmem_cache_alloc_node __alloc_skb nfc_genl_fw_download_done call_timer_fn __run_timers.part.0 run_timer_softirq __do_softirq ... The nlmsg_new with GFP_KERNEL parameter may sleep during memory allocation process, and the timer handler is run as the result of a "software interrupt" that should not call any other function that could sleep. This patch changes allocation mode of netlink message from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC in order to prevent sleep in atomic bug. The GFP_ATOMIC flag makes memory allocation operation could be used in atomic context. Fixes: 9674da8 ("NFC: Add firmware upload netlink command") Fixes: 9ea7187 ("NFC: netlink: Rename CMD_FW_UPLOAD to CMD_FW_DOWNLOAD") Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
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net/nfc/netlink.c

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@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ int nfc_genl_fw_download_done(struct nfc_dev *dev, const char *firmware_name,
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struct sk_buff *msg;
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void *hdr;
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msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
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msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
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if (!msg)
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return -ENOMEM;
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@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ int nfc_genl_fw_download_done(struct nfc_dev *dev, const char *firmware_name,
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genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
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genlmsg_multicast(&nfc_genl_family, msg, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
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genlmsg_multicast(&nfc_genl_family, msg, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
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return 0;
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