mwifiex: Fix possible ABBA deadlock
Quoting Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>: mwifiex_dequeue_tx_packet() spin_lock_bh(&priv->wmm.ra_list_spinlock); --> Line 1432 (Lock A) mwifiex_send_addba() spin_lock_bh(&priv->sta_list_spinlock); --> Line 608 (Lock B) mwifiex_process_sta_tx_pause() spin_lock_bh(&priv->sta_list_spinlock); --> Line 398 (Lock B) mwifiex_update_ralist_tx_pause() spin_lock_bh(&priv->wmm.ra_list_spinlock); --> Line 941 (Lock A) Similar report for mwifiex_process_uap_tx_pause(). While the locking expectations in this driver are a bit unclear, the Fixed commit only intended to protect the sta_ptr, so we can drop the lock as soon as we're done with it. IIUC, this deadlock cannot actually happen, because command event processing (which calls mwifiex_process_sta_tx_pause()) is sequentialized with TX packet processing (e.g., mwifiex_dequeue_tx_packet()) via the main loop (mwifiex_main_process()). But it's good not to leave this potential issue lurking. Fixes: f0f7c227 ("mwifiex: minor cleanups w/ sta_list_spinlock in cfg80211.c") Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/0e495b14-efbb-e0da-37bd-af6bd677ee2c@gmail.com/Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YaV0pllJ5p/EuUat@google.com
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