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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2016-01-05 14:06:19 +0300
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>2016-01-16 17:48:41 +0300
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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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