batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_bla_claim
authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:28:19 +0000 (15:28 +0100)
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:48:29 +0000 (22:48 +0800)
commit63b399272294e7a939cde41792dca38c549f0484
tree73ccce6e249a893dc25f9e692b3b7a1a8a98f81e
parent6c3f5aef1159a278b54642ebc0bbb5cdab7630cf
batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_bla_claim

The batadv_claim_free_ref function uses call_rcu to delay the free of the
batadv_bla_claim 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_bla_claim also contains a
reference to backbone_gw which must be removed.

The reference drop of backbone_gw was done in the call_rcu function
batadv_claim_free_rcu but should actually be done in the
batadv_claim_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: 23721387c409 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c