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author | Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> | 2016-01-05 14:06:19 +0300 |
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committer | Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> | 2016-01-16 17:48:41 +0300 |
commit | 44e8e7e91d6c7c7ab19688750f7257292640d1a0 (patch) | |
tree | f19e2bc2392e0a365ce434d684daf8a83ff4f786 /net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | |
parent | 63b399272294e7a939cde41792dca38c549f0484 (diff) | |
download | linux-44e8e7e91d6c7c7ab19688750f7257292640d1a0.tar.xz |
batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_nc_node
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>
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