Search Linux Wireless

[PATCH] mac80211: don't allocate mesh peer under RCU

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



mesh_plink_alloc() was being called with the RCU read lock held, which
triggered warnings because various things inside this function must
sleep. It doesn't make much sense to hold an RCU lock on a pointer we
don't yet have anyway, so do rcu_read_unlock() if allocating and relock
on insertion. This also means there is no need for
cfg80211_notify_new_peer_candidate() to be atomic.

Also balance the RCU lock if we are returning early.

This warning was only visible with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP enabled.

Reported-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
index 234fe75..427c87d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static struct sta_info *mesh_peer_init(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	enum ieee80211_band band = ieee80211_get_sdata_band(sdata);
 	struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
 	u32 rates, basic_rates = 0;
-	struct sta_info *sta;
+	struct sta_info *sta = NULL;
 	bool insert = false;
 
 	sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[band];
@@ -354,18 +354,19 @@ static struct sta_info *mesh_peer_init(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
 	sta = sta_info_get(sdata, addr);
 	if (!sta) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		/* Userspace handles peer allocation when security is enabled */
 		if (sdata->u.mesh.security & IEEE80211_MESH_SEC_AUTHED) {
 			cfg80211_notify_new_peer_candidate(sdata->dev, addr,
 							   elems->ie_start,
 							   elems->total_len,
-							   GFP_ATOMIC);
-			return NULL;
+							   GFP_KERNEL);
+			goto lock_out;
 		}
 
 		sta = mesh_plink_alloc(sdata, addr);
 		if (!sta)
-			return NULL;
+			goto lock_out;
 		insert = true;
 	}
 
@@ -397,10 +398,13 @@ static struct sta_info *mesh_peer_init(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	rate_control_rate_init(sta);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
 
-	if (insert && sta_info_insert(sta))
+	if (insert && sta_info_insert_rcu(sta))
 		return NULL;
 
 	return sta;
+lock_out:
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	return sta;
 }
 
 void mesh_neighbour_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
-- 
1.7.9.5

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux