From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c index 89aacfd2756d..9ba6d8c7c793 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c @@ -747,10 +747,8 @@ void mesh_plink_broken(struct sta_info *sta) 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(struct rcu_head *rp) /* 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_table *tbl, struct mpath_node *node) 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); } -- 2.7.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html