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| author | Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> | 2016-01-05 12:06:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-31 11:29:02 -0800 |
| commit | d3a4a363d8d3a6c8c9e7419e168b409ff3f31dd2 (patch) | |
| tree | f6870df91ecd432cdc0216144a7da7300bee0eab /net/batman-adv | |
| parent | 4473483399586fe8ffb266b0519f525d55b28010 (diff) | |
batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_nc_node
[ Upstream commit 44e8e7e91d6c7c7ab19688750f7257292640d1a0 ]
The batadv_nc_node_free_ref function uses call_rcu to delay the free of the
batadv_nc_node object until no (already started) rcu_read_lock is enabled
anymore. This makes sure that no context is still trying to access the
object which should be removed. But batadv_nc_node also contains a
reference to orig_node which must be removed.
The reference drop of orig_node was done in the call_rcu function
batadv_nc_node_free_rcu but should actually be done in the
batadv_nc_node_release function to avoid nested call_rcus. This is
important because rcu_barrier (e.g. batadv_softif_free or batadv_exit) will
not detect the inner call_rcu as relevant for its execution. Otherwise this
barrier will most likely be inserted in the queue before the callback of
the first call_rcu was executed. The caller of rcu_barrier will therefore
continue to run before the inner call_rcu callback finished.
Fixes: d56b1705e28c ("batman-adv: network coding - detect coding nodes and remove these after timeout")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/batman-adv/network-coding.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c b/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c index f5276be2c77c..d0956f726547 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c @@ -203,28 +203,25 @@ void batadv_nc_init_orig(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node) } /** - * batadv_nc_node_free_rcu - rcu callback to free an nc node and remove - * its refcount on the orig_node - * @rcu: rcu pointer of the nc node + * batadv_nc_node_release - release nc_node from lists and queue for free after + * rcu grace period + * @nc_node: the nc node to free */ -static void batadv_nc_node_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) +static void batadv_nc_node_release(struct batadv_nc_node *nc_node) { - struct batadv_nc_node *nc_node; - - nc_node = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_nc_node, rcu); batadv_orig_node_free_ref(nc_node->orig_node); - kfree(nc_node); + kfree_rcu(nc_node, rcu); } /** - * batadv_nc_node_free_ref - decrements the nc node refcounter and possibly - * frees it + * batadv_nc_node_free_ref - decrement the nc node refcounter and possibly + * release it * @nc_node: the nc node to free */ static void batadv_nc_node_free_ref(struct batadv_nc_node *nc_node) { if (atomic_dec_and_test(&nc_node->refcount)) - call_rcu(&nc_node->rcu, batadv_nc_node_free_rcu); + batadv_nc_node_release(nc_node); } /** |