batman-adv: fix global protection fault during soft_iface destruction
authorAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:04:52 +0000 (11:04 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:40:48 +0000 (20:40 -0400)
batadv_mesh_free() schedules some RCU callbacks which need the bat_priv struct
to do their jobs, while free_netdev(), which is called immediately after, is
destroying the private data.

Put an rcu_barrier() in the middle so that free_netdev() is invoked only after
all the callbacks returned.

This bug has been introduced by ab8f433dd39be94e8617cff2dfe9f7eca162eb15
("batman-adv: Move deinitialization of soft-interface to destructor")

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c

index 403b8c46085e40a667da281c8352781197f6539b..6f20d339e33adb3bab929d9bc406f3c8cebd959a 100644 (file)
@@ -582,6 +582,13 @@ static void batadv_softif_free(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        batadv_debugfs_del_meshif(dev);
        batadv_mesh_free(dev);
+
+       /* some scheduled RCU callbacks need the bat_priv struct to accomplish
+        * their tasks. Wait for them all to be finished before freeing the
+        * netdev and its private data (bat_priv)
+        */
+       rcu_barrier();
+
        free_netdev(dev);
 }