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authorJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>2017-12-12 21:24:56 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-12-15 20:24:14 +0100
commitfe8e7acea2426dcd1130fd5c9710b74217c90dd0 (patch)
tree865a507d64c1ba033fe1d994bd1ee0552d77cb92 /drivers/tty
parentbe7e251d20e6c800b3b9ee79d1da6059438c34f8 (diff)
downloadlinux-fe8e7acea2426dcd1130fd5c9710b74217c90dd0.tar.gz
tty/isicom: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in WaitTillCardIsFree
The driver may sleep under a spinlock.
The function call paths are:
isicom_activate (acquire the spinlock)
  isicom_setup_board
    drop_dtr_rts
      WaitTillCardIsFree
        msleep --> may sleep

isicom_set_termios
  isicom_config_port
    drop_dtr
      WaitTillCardIsFree
        msleep --> may sleep

isicom_tiocmset
  drop_dtr
    WaitTillCardIsFree
      msleep --> may sleep

Though "in_atomic" is used to check atomic context,
but it is not recommended to use in driver code (see include/linux/preempt.h).

To fix it, only using mdelay instead.

This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code review.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/isicom.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/isicom.c b/drivers/tty/isicom.c
index 015686ff4825..bdd3027ef01b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/isicom.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/isicom.c
@@ -219,13 +219,9 @@ static struct isi_port  isi_ports[PORT_COUNT];
 static int WaitTillCardIsFree(unsigned long base)
 {
 	unsigned int count = 0;
-	unsigned int a = in_atomic(); /* do we run under spinlock? */
 
 	while (!(inw(base + 0xe) & 0x1) && count++ < 100)
-		if (a)
-			mdelay(1);
-		else
-			msleep(1);
+		mdelay(1);
 
 	return !(inw(base + 0xe) & 0x1);
 }