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| author | Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> | 2011-05-03 16:57:17 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-05-11 14:50:35 -0400 |
| commit | 28104cae63708d1790cd71db8a45af50d5ea5a92 (patch) | |
| tree | 035b490c6db1cf1f17e38adf66aab103540ff735 | |
| parent | 9b84b80891e5e25ae21c855bb135b05274125a29 (diff) | |
mac80211: Move call to mpp_path_lookup inside RCU-read section
PROVE_RCU caught that one:
[ 431.214070] ===================================================
[ 431.215341] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[ 431.215674] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 431.216043] net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c:184 invoked
rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/tx.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c index e1a39ed1ef5e..c9f12113ca6a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c @@ -1751,6 +1751,7 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, ret = NETDEV_TX_OK; goto fail; } + rcu_read_lock(); if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data)) mppath = mpp_path_lookup(skb->data, sdata); @@ -1765,13 +1766,13 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, !(mppath && compare_ether_addr(mppath->mpp, skb->data))) { hdrlen = ieee80211_fill_mesh_addresses(&hdr, &fc, skb->data, skb->data + ETH_ALEN); + rcu_read_unlock(); meshhdrlen = ieee80211_new_mesh_header(&mesh_hdr, sdata, NULL, NULL); } else { int is_mesh_mcast = 1; const u8 *mesh_da; - rcu_read_lock(); if (is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data)) /* DA TA mSA AE:SA */ mesh_da = skb->data; |