mac80211: fix non RCU-safe sta_list manipulation
authorArik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:32:32 +0000 (23:32 +0300)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:26:54 +0000 (15:26 -0400)
sta_info_cleanup locks the sta_list using rcu_read_lock however
the delete operation isn't rcu safe. A race between sta_info_cleanup
timer being called and a STA being removed can occur which leads
to a panic while traversing sta_list. Fix this by switching to the
RCU-safe versions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/sta_info.c

index f5b1638fbf8092a5ac30eebaea5b46b0b840867a..de455f8bbb91c0ffbedd2c911623380946d07d0b 100644 (file)
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
        /* make the station visible */
        sta_info_hash_add(local, sta);
 
-       list_add(&sta->list, &local->sta_list);
+       list_add_rcu(&sta->list, &local->sta_list);
 
        set_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_INSERTED);
 
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ int __must_check __sta_info_destroy(struct sta_info *sta)
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
-       list_del(&sta->list);
+       list_del_rcu(&sta->list);
 
        mutex_lock(&local->key_mtx);
        for (i = 0; i < NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS; i++)