Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2021-02-12

Re: [PATCH] rtw88: hold RCU lock when calling ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr()

From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Date: 2021-02-12 06:36:03
Also in: lkml, netdev

On 2021-02-12 03:13, Shuah Khan wrote:
ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() must be called under the RCU lock and
the resulting pointer is only valid under RCU lock as well.

Fix rtw_rx_addr_match_iter() to hold RCU read lock before it calls
ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() and release it when the resulting
pointer is no longer needed.

This problem was found while reviewing code to debug RCU warn from
ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info() and a subsequent manual audit
of other callers of ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() that don't hold
RCU read lock.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
This one also seems unnecessary. rtw_rx_addr_match_iter is called by
ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic, which acquires the RCU read
lock before calling it.

- Felix
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