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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2015-04-24 11:03:37 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-06-05 23:20:00 -0700
commit35760dc525870d213ba2a77fb92e8652290b76df (patch)
tree6115884c8bdbf3c67ecc4b14f1cfc15e5572214b
parent3763b3c77e2c77aa226fde2fac64bd85a2b85c80 (diff)
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock
commit 414b7e3b9ce8b0577f613e656fdbc36b34b444dd upstream. The USB mini-driver in rtlwifi, which is used by rtl8192cu, issues a call to usb_control_msg() with a timeout value of 0. In some instances where the interface is shutting down, this infinite wait results in a CPU deadlock. A one second timeout fixes this problem without affecting any normal operations. This bug is reported at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927786. Reported-by: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> Tested-by: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai<tiwai@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index 57b12a5883a0..3ad79736b255 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int _usbctrl_vendorreq_sync_read(struct usb_device *udev, u8 request,
do {
status = usb_control_msg(udev, pipe, request, reqtype, value,
- index, pdata, len, 0); /*max. timeout*/
+ index, pdata, len, 1000);
if (status < 0) {
/* firmware download is checksumed, don't retry */
if ((value >= FW_8192C_START_ADDRESS &&