rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:03:37 +0000 (11:03 -0500)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:55:28 +0000 (13:55 +0300)
commit414b7e3b9ce8b0577f613e656fdbc36b34b444dd
tree1f28f41ff605b7e08d1be6fa40342a57fa6fbe7f
parent39376ccb1968ba9f83e2a880a8bf02ad5dea44e1
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock

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: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai<tiwai@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c