rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:03:37 +0000 (11:03 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 6 Jun 2015 15:21:07 +0000 (08:21 -0700)
commit41e6fa28dea0ef4efd06e96e785cb88cfe2c17ed
tree9626a1a97b5b2129b6c9f95d00f927a6f50ece7b
parent4ca8642f51bdacc1e4fc5f04fa3de92ff6de4706
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>
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c