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[PATCH 3.10 36/80] mac80211: mesh: fix call_rcu() usage

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  [PATCH 3.10 36/80] mac80211: mesh: fix call_rcu() usage Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-02 00:50 +0100

#1347116 — [PATCH 3.10 36/80] mac80211: mesh: fix call_rcu() usage

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

commit c2e703a55245bfff3db53b1f7cbe59f1ee8a4339 upstream.

When using call_rcu(), the called function may be delayed quite
significantly, and without a matching rcu_barrier() there's no
way to be sure it has finished.
Therefore, global state that could be gone/freed/reused should
never be touched in the callback.

Fix this in mesh by moving the atomic_dec() into the caller;
that's not really a problem since we already unlinked the path
and it will be destroyed anyway.

This fixes a crash Jouni observed when running certain tests in
a certain order, in which the mesh interface was torn down, the
memory reused for a function pointer (work struct) and running
that then crashed since the pointer had been decremented by 1,
resulting in an invalid instruction byte stream.

Fixes: eb2b9311fd00 ("mac80211: mesh path table implementation")
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
@@ -747,10 +747,8 @@ void mesh_plink_broken(struct sta_info *
 static void mesh_path_node_reclaim(struct rcu_head *rp)
 {
 	struct mpath_node *node = container_of(rp, struct mpath_node, rcu);
-	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = node->mpath->sdata;
 
 	del_timer_sync(&node->mpath->timer);
-	atomic_dec(&sdata->u.mesh.mpaths);
 	kfree(node->mpath);
 	kfree(node);
 }
@@ -758,8 +756,9 @@ static void mesh_path_node_reclaim(struc
 /* needs to be called with the corresponding hashwlock taken */
 static void __mesh_path_del(struct mesh_table *tbl, struct mpath_node *node)
 {
-	struct mesh_path *mpath;
-	mpath = node->mpath;
+	struct mesh_path *mpath = node->mpath;
+	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = node->mpath->sdata;
+
 	spin_lock(&mpath->state_lock);
 	mpath->flags |= MESH_PATH_RESOLVING;
 	if (mpath->is_gate)
@@ -767,6 +766,7 @@ static void __mesh_path_del(struct mesh_
 	hlist_del_rcu(&node->list);
 	call_rcu(&node->rcu, mesh_path_node_reclaim);
 	spin_unlock(&mpath->state_lock);
+	atomic_dec(&sdata->u.mesh.mpaths);
 	atomic_dec(&tbl->entries);
 }
 

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