The riptide driver may sleep under a spinlock, and the function call path is: snd_riptide_prepare (acquire the spinlock) setsampleformat sendcmd riptide_reset try_to_load_firmware request_firmware _request_firmware (drivers/base/firmware_class.c) _request_firmware_prepare kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC in _request_firmware_prepare. This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@163.com> --- drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index 4b57cf5..d89f676 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ static inline void kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs(bool only_kill_custom) { } struct firmware_buf *buf; int ret; - *firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_KERNEL); + *firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!firmware) { dev_err(device, "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n", __func__); -- 1.7.9.5