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Commit 2051c6ae authored by Jia-Ju Bai's avatar Jia-Ju Bai Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: rtl8188eu: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in issue_deauth_ex()



The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 is:

[FUNC] msleep
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 1536:
	msleep in issue_deauth_ex
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c, 5110:
	issue_deauth_ex in disconnect_hdl
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c, 521:
	disconnect_hdl in rtw_disassoc_cmd
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c, 352:
	rtw_disassoc_cmd in rtw_set_802_11_infrastructure_mode
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 1002:
	rtw_set_802_11_infrastructure_mode in rtw_wx_set_wap
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c, 988:
	spin_lock_bh in rtw_wx_set_wap

To fix this bug, msleep() is replaced with mdelay().

This bug is found by my static analysis tool DSAC.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 7af5bd0c
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