ath9k: merge a RCU fix for station tx cleanup
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:36:05 +0000 (15:36 +0100)
committerFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:37:59 +0000 (15:37 +0100)
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
package/kernel/mac80211/patches/330-ath9k-Protect-queue-draining-by-rcu_read_lock.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/330-ath9k-Protect-queue-draining-by-rcu_read_lock.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/330-ath9k-Protect-queue-draining-by-rcu_read_lock.patch
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+From: =?UTF-8?q?Toke=20H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= <toke@toke.dk>
+Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 11:36:45 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: Protect queue draining by rcu_read_lock()
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+
+When ath9k was switched over to use the mac80211 intermediate queues,
+node cleanup now drains the mac80211 queues. However, this call path is
+not protected by rcu_read_lock() as it was previously entirely internal
+to the driver which uses its own locking.
+
+This leads to a possible rcu_dereference() without holding
+rcu_read_lock(); but only if a station is cleaned up while having
+packets queued on the TXQ. Fix this by adding the rcu_read_lock() to the
+caller in ath9k.
+
+Fixes: 50f08edf9809 ("ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.")
+Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
+Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
+Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
+---
+
+--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+@@ -2930,6 +2930,8 @@ void ath_tx_node_cleanup(struct ath_soft
+       struct ath_txq *txq;
+       int tidno;
++      rcu_read_lock();
++
+       for (tidno = 0; tidno < IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS; tidno++) {
+               tid = ath_node_to_tid(an, tidno);
+               txq = tid->txq;
+@@ -2947,6 +2949,8 @@ void ath_tx_node_cleanup(struct ath_soft
+               if (!an->sta)
+                       break; /* just one multicast ath_atx_tid */
+       }
++
++      rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
+ #ifdef CPTCFG_ATH9K_TX99