On Friday 10 June 2016 01:51 PM, Pavel Andrianov wrote: > Hi! > > There is a potential data race in > drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko. > > In the function rtl88ee_gpio_radio_on_off_checking the flag > ppsc->rfchange_inprogress is set with a spinlock protection. In the function > rtl_ps_set_rf_state the flag is read also under a spinlock. But the function > rtl88e_dm_watchdog read it without any locks. As a result rtl88e_dm_watchdog > may execute the succeeding code while changing (with the flag > rfchange_inprogress == true). I do not exactly determine the consequences, > but likely they are not good if there exists such check. Could anybody more > confident confirm this? > > The function rtl_ps_set_rf_state is always called with its parameter > [protect_or_not == false]. Is this flag really necessary, if the value 'true' > is never used? The function is also set the flag ppsc->rfchange_inprogress > and may affect the rtl88e_dm_watchdog as in the previous case.
I think the patch was sent sometime ago for removing the parameter. But I am not sure why it's not applied. May be Larry can have better idea about this. Here, is link to the patch: http://linux-wireless.vger.kernel.narkive.com/mu4t9xxr/patch-3-4-rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-remove-unused-parameter -- Vaishali