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Commit b465bb2e authored by Duoming Zhou's avatar Duoming Zhou Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220417135407.109536-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent a2df0b4d
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