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authorJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>2011-05-03 16:57:17 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-05-11 14:50:35 -0400
commit28104cae63708d1790cd71db8a45af50d5ea5a92 (patch)
tree035b490c6db1cf1f17e38adf66aab103540ff735 /net
parent9b84b80891e5e25ae21c855bb135b05274125a29 (diff)
mac80211: Move call to mpp_path_lookup inside RCU-read section
PROVE_RCU caught that one: [ 431.214070] =================================================== [ 431.215341] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 431.215674] --------------------------------------------------- [ 431.216043] net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c:184 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index e1a39ed1ef5e..c9f12113ca6a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1751,6 +1751,7 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
goto fail;
}
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data))
mppath = mpp_path_lookup(skb->data, sdata);
@@ -1765,13 +1766,13 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
!(mppath && compare_ether_addr(mppath->mpp, skb->data))) {
hdrlen = ieee80211_fill_mesh_addresses(&hdr, &fc,
skb->data, skb->data + ETH_ALEN);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
meshhdrlen = ieee80211_new_mesh_header(&mesh_hdr,
sdata, NULL, NULL);
} else {
int is_mesh_mcast = 1;
const u8 *mesh_da;
- rcu_read_lock();
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data))
/* DA TA mSA AE:SA */
mesh_da = skb->data;