NFC: netlink: fix sleep in atomic bug when firmware download timeout

There are sleep in atomic bug that could cause kernel panic during
firmware download process. The root cause is that nlmsg_new with
GFP_KERNEL parameter is called in fw_dnld_timeout which is a timer
handler. The call trace is shown below:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:265
Call Trace:
kmem_cache_alloc_node
__alloc_skb
nfc_genl_fw_download_done
call_timer_fn
__run_timers.part.0
run_timer_softirq
__do_softirq
...

The nlmsg_new with GFP_KERNEL parameter may sleep during memory
allocation process, and the timer handler is run as the result of
a "software interrupt" that should not call any other function
that could sleep.

This patch changes allocation mode of netlink message from GFP_KERNEL
to GFP_ATOMIC in order to prevent sleep in atomic bug. The GFP_ATOMIC
flag makes memory allocation operation could be used in atomic context.

Fixes: 9674da8759 ("NFC: Add firmware upload netlink command")
Fixes: 9ea7187c53 ("NFC: netlink: Rename CMD_FW_UPLOAD to CMD_FW_DOWNLOAD")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
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Duoming Zhou authored and Paolo Abeni committed 2022-05-05 10:18:15 +02:00
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@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ int nfc_genl_fw_download_done(struct nfc_dev *dev, const char *firmware_name,
struct sk_buff *msg;
void *hdr;
msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!msg)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ int nfc_genl_fw_download_done(struct nfc_dev *dev, const char *firmware_name,
genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
genlmsg_multicast(&nfc_genl_family, msg, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
genlmsg_multicast(&nfc_genl_family, msg, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
return 0;