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Commit 34c5bf7c authored by Sven Eckelmann's avatar Sven Eckelmann Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_nc_node



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The batadv_nc_node_free_ref function uses call_rcu to delay the free of the
batadv_nc_node 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_nc_node also contains a
reference to orig_node which must be removed.

The reference drop of orig_node was done in the call_rcu function
batadv_nc_node_free_rcu but should actually be done in the
batadv_nc_node_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: d56b1705 ("batman-adv: network coding - detect coding nodes and remove these after timeout")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 016cb1d0
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