This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix a few RCU issues
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-fix-a-few-rcu-issues.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a3836e02ba4c50db958d32d710b226f2408623dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:11:37 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix a few RCU issues
From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
commit a3836e02ba4c50db958d32d710b226f2408623dc upstream.
A few configuration functions correctly do
rcu_read_lock() but don't correctly reference
some pointers protected by RCU. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -228,11 +228,11 @@ static int ieee80211_get_key(struct wiph
goto out;
if (pairwise)
- key = sta->ptk;
+ key = rcu_dereference(sta->ptk);
else if (key_idx < NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS)
- key = sta->gtk[key_idx];
+ key = rcu_dereference(sta->gtk[key_idx]);
} else
- key = sdata->keys[key_idx];
+ key = rcu_dereference(sdata->keys[key_idx]);
if (!key)
goto out;
@@ -921,8 +921,10 @@ static int ieee80211_change_mpath(struct
static void mpath_set_pinfo(struct mesh_path *mpath, u8 *next_hop,
struct mpath_info *pinfo)
{
- if (mpath->next_hop)
- memcpy(next_hop, mpath->next_hop->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ struct sta_info *next_hop_sta = rcu_dereference(mpath->next_hop);
+
+ if (next_hop_sta)
+ memcpy(next_hop, next_hop_sta->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
else
memset(next_hop, 0, ETH_ALEN);
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