[patch 09/33] orinoco: move kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) outside spinlock in orinoco_ioctl_set_genie

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

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2.6.28-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>

commit 7fe99c4e28ab54eada8aa456b417114e6ef21587 upstream

orinoco: move kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) outside spinlock in orinoco_ioctl_set_genie

[   56.923623] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/bor/src/linux-git/mm/slub.c:1599
[   56.923644] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 3031, name: wpa_supplicant
[   56.923656] 2 locks held by wpa_supplicant/3031:
[   56.923662]  #0:  (rtnl_mutex){--..}, at: [<c02abd1f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x20
[   56.923703]  #1:  (&priv->lock){++..}, at: [<dfc840c2>] orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x52/0x130 [orinoco]
[   56.923782] irq event stamp: 910
[   56.923788] hardirqs last  enabled at (909): [<c01957db>] __kmalloc+0x7b/0x140
[   56.923820] hardirqs last disabled at (910): [<c0309419>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x80
[   56.923847] softirqs last  enabled at (880): [<c0124f54>] __do_softirq+0xc4/0x110
[   56.923865] softirqs last disabled at (871): [<c01049ae>] do_softirq+0x8e/0xe0
[   56.923895] Pid: 3031, comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 2.6.29-rc2-1avb #1
[   56.923905] Call Trace:
[   56.923919]  [<c01049ae>] ? do_softirq+0x8e/0xe0
[   56.923941]  [<c011ad12>] __might_sleep+0xd2/0x100
[   56.923952]  [<c0195837>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x140
[   56.923963]  [<c030946a>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x6a/0x80
[   56.923981]  [<dfc840e9>] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x79/0x130 [orinoco]
[   56.923999]  [<dfc840c2>] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x52/0x130 [orinoco]
[   56.924017]  [<dfc840e9>] orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x79/0x130 [orinoco]
[   56.924036]  [<c0209325>] ? copy_from_user+0x35/0x130
[   56.924061]  [<c02ffd96>] ioctl_standard_call+0x196/0x380
[   56.924085]  [<c029f945>] ? __dev_get_by_name+0x85/0xb0
[   56.924096]  [<c02ff88f>] wext_handle_ioctl+0x14f/0x230
[   56.924113]  [<dfc84070>] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x0/0x130 [orinoco]
[   56.924132]  [<c02a3da5>] dev_ioctl+0x495/0x570
[   56.924155]  [<c0293e05>] ? sys_sendto+0xa5/0xd0
[   56.924171]  [<c0142fe8>] ? mark_held_locks+0x48/0x90
[   56.924183]  [<c0292880>] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x280
[   56.924193]  [<c029297d>] sock_ioctl+0xfd/0x280
[   56.924203]  [<c0292880>] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x280
[   56.924235]  [<c01a51d0>] vfs_ioctl+0x20/0x80
[   56.924246]  [<c01a53e2>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x72/0x570
[   56.924257]  [<c0293e62>] ? sys_send+0x32/0x40
[   56.924268]  [<c02947c0>] ? sys_socketcall+0x1d0/0x2a0
[   56.924280]  [<c010339f>] ? sysenter_exit+0xf/0x16
[   56.924292]  [<c01a5919>] sys_ioctl+0x39/0x70
[   56.924302]  [<c0103371>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c |   30 +++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -4938,32 +4938,29 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_set_genie(struc
 	struct orinoco_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 	u8 *buf;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int err = 0;
 
 	if ((wrqu->data.length > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN) ||
 	    (wrqu->data.length && (extra == NULL)))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (orinoco_lock(priv, &flags) != 0)
-		return -EBUSY;
-
 	if (wrqu->data.length) {
 		buf = kmalloc(wrqu->data.length, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (buf == NULL) {
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto out;
-		}
+		if (buf == NULL)
+			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		memcpy(buf, extra, wrqu->data.length);
-		kfree(priv->wpa_ie);
-		priv->wpa_ie = buf;
-		priv->wpa_ie_len = wrqu->data.length;
-	} else {
-		kfree(priv->wpa_ie);
-		priv->wpa_ie = NULL;
-		priv->wpa_ie_len = 0;
+	} else
+		buf = NULL;
+
+	if (orinoco_lock(priv, &flags) != 0) {
+		kfree(buf);
+		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
+	kfree(priv->wpa_ie);
+	priv->wpa_ie = buf;
+	priv->wpa_ie_len = wrqu->data.length;
+
 	if (priv->wpa_ie) {
 		/* Looks like wl_lkm wants to check the auth alg, and
 		 * somehow pass it to the firmware.
@@ -4972,9 +4969,8 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_set_genie(struc
 		 */
 	}
 
-out:
 	orinoco_unlock(priv, &flags);
-	return err;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int orinoco_ioctl_get_genie(struct net_device *dev,