rtlwifi: Preallocate USB read buffers and eliminate kalloc in read routine

The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to
acquire a 32-bit buffer for each read of the device. When
_usb_read_sync() is called with the rcu_lock held, the result is
a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG. This is
reported for two cases in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775.
The first case has the lock originating from within rtlwifi and could
be fixed by rearranging the locking; however, the second originates from
within mac80211. The kmalloc() call is removed from _usb_read_sync()
by creating a ring buffer pointer in the private area and
allocating the buffer data in the probe routine.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [This version good for 3.3+ - different patch for 3.2 - 2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index 2e1e352864bb..d04dbda13f5a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -124,46 +124,38 @@ static int _usbctrl_vendorreq_sync_read(struct usb_device *udev, u8 request,
         return status;
 }
 
-static u32 _usb_read_sync(struct usb_device *udev, u32 addr, u16 len)
+static u32 _usb_read_sync(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u32 addr, u16 len)
 {
+        struct device *dev = rtlpriv->io.dev;
+        struct usb_device *udev = to_usb_device(dev);
         u8 request;
         u16 wvalue;
         u16 index;
-        u32 *data;
-        u32 ret;
+        __le32 *data = &rtlpriv->usb_data[rtlpriv->usb_data_index];
 
-        data = kmalloc(sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
-        if (!data)
-                return -ENOMEM;
         request = REALTEK_USB_VENQT_CMD_REQ;
         index = REALTEK_USB_VENQT_CMD_IDX; /* n/a */
 
         wvalue = (u16)addr;
         _usbctrl_vendorreq_sync_read(udev, request, wvalue, index, data, len);
-        ret = le32_to_cpu(*data);
-        kfree(data);
-        return ret;
+        if (++rtlpriv->usb_data_index >= RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT)
+                rtlpriv->usb_data_index = 0;
+        return le32_to_cpu(*data);
 }
 
 static u8 _usb_read8_sync(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u32 addr)
 {
-        struct device *dev = rtlpriv->io.dev;
-
-        return (u8)_usb_read_sync(to_usb_device(dev), addr, 1);
+        return (u8)_usb_read_sync(rtlpriv, addr, 1);
 }
 
 static u16 _usb_read16_sync(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u32 addr)
 {
-        struct device *dev = rtlpriv->io.dev;
-
-        return (u16)_usb_read_sync(to_usb_device(dev), addr, 2);
+        return (u16)_usb_read_sync(rtlpriv, addr, 2);
 }
 
 static u32 _usb_read32_sync(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u32 addr)
 {
-        struct device *dev = rtlpriv->io.dev;
-
-        return _usb_read_sync(to_usb_device(dev), addr, 4);
+        return _usb_read_sync(rtlpriv, addr, 4);
 }
 
 static void _usb_write_async(struct usb_device *udev, u32 addr, u32 val,
@@ -955,6 +947,11 @@ int __devinit rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
                 return -ENOMEM;
         }
         rtlpriv = hw->priv;
+        rtlpriv->usb_data = kzalloc(RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT * sizeof(u32),
+                                    GFP_KERNEL);
+        if (!rtlpriv->usb_data)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+        rtlpriv->usb_data_index = 0;
         init_completion(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
         SET_IEEE80211_DEV(hw, &intf->dev);
         udev = interface_to_usbdev(intf);
@@ -1025,6 +1022,7 @@ void rtl_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
         /* rtl_deinit_rfkill(hw); */
         rtl_usb_deinit(hw);
         rtl_deinit_core(hw);
+        kfree(rtlpriv->usb_data);
         rtlpriv->cfg->ops->deinit_sw_leds(hw);
         rtlpriv->cfg->ops->deinit_sw_vars(hw);
         _rtl_usb_io_handler_release(hw);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
index b591614c3b9b..28ebc69218a3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 #define QOS_QUEUE_NUM                           4
 #define RTL_MAC80211_NUM_QUEUE                  5
 #define REALTEK_USB_VENQT_MAX_BUF_SIZE          254
-
+#define RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT                    100
 #define QBSS_LOAD_SIZE                          5
 #define MAX_WMMELE_LENGTH                       64
 
@@ -1629,6 +1629,10 @@ struct rtl_priv {
            interface or hardware */
         unsigned long status;
 
+        /* data buffer pointer for USB reads */
+        __le32 *usb_data;
+        int usb_data_index;
+
         /*This must be the last item so
            that it points to the data allocated
            beyond  this structure like: