[BUG] vt6655: A possible sleep-in-atomic bug in vt6655_suspend

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990 at 163.com
Mon Oct 9 07:56:49 UTC 2017


Okay, I will send a patch :)


Thanks,
Jia-Ju Bai

On 2017/10/9 13:43, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:10:28AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>> According to device_main.c, the driver may sleep under a spinlock,
>> and the function call path is:
>> vt6655_suspend (acquire the spinlock)
>>    pci_set_power_state
>>      __pci_start_power_transition (drivers/pci/pci.c)
>>        msleep --> may sleep
>>
>> A possible fix is to replace msleep with mdelay in
>> __pci_start_power_transition in drivers/pci/pci.c.
> Patches are usually best to send in for things that you find like this.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h




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