The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 63b399272294e7a939cde41792dca38c549f0484 Author: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Date: Thu Jan 14 15:28:19 2016 +0100

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

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c index d5d71ac..c24c481 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c @@ -127,21 +127,17 @@ batadv_backbone_gw_free_ref(struct batadv_bla_backbone_gw *backbone_gw) }

/* finally deinitialize the claim */ -static void batadv_claim_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) +static void batadv_claim_release(struct batadv_bla_claim *claim) { - struct batadv_bla_claim *claim; - - claim = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_bla_claim, rcu); - batadv_backbone_gw_free_ref(claim->backbone_gw); - kfree(claim); + kfree_rcu(claim, rcu); }

/* free a claim, call claim_free_rcu if its the last reference */ static void batadv_claim_free_ref(struct batadv_bla_claim *claim) { if (atomic_dec_and_test(&claim->refcount)) - call_rcu(&claim->rcu, batadv_claim_free_rcu); + batadv_claim_release(claim); }

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