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Commit 794454ce authored by Arik Nemtsov's avatar Arik Nemtsov Committed by John W. Linville
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mac80211: fix non RCU-safe sta_list manipulation



sta_info_cleanup locks the sta_list using rcu_read_lock however
the delete operation isn't rcu safe. A race between sta_info_cleanup
timer being called and a STA being removed can occur which leads
to a panic while traversing sta_list. Fix this by switching to the
RCU-safe versions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarEyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 69aaedd3
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