mac80211: mesh: fix crash in mesh_path_timer
authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:03:24 +0000 (22:03 -0400)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 5 Apr 2016 19:34:49 +0000 (21:34 +0200)
commit749329594b5e0fb612b2de642a692323ddf661dd
treeb8c360b3c7af4e979bbfacdda2f930d8fdf81438
parent52cfa1d6146c5aa48360b02533fc7e039a66086e
mac80211: mesh: fix crash in mesh_path_timer

The mesh_path_reclaim() function, called from an rcu callback, cancels
the mesh_path_timer associated with a mesh path.  Unfortunately, this
call can happen much later, perhaps after the hash table itself is
destroyed.

Such a situation led to the following crash in mesh_path_send_to_gates()
when dereferencing the tbl pointer:

[   23.901661] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
[   23.905516] IP: [<ffffffff814c910b>] mesh_path_send_to_gates+0x2b/0x740
[   23.908757] PGD 99ca067 PUD 99c4067 PMD 0
[   23.910789] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[   23.913485] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc6-wt+ #43
[   23.916675] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014
[   23.920471] task: ffffffff81685500 ti: ffffffff81678000 task.ti: ffffffff81678000
[   23.922619] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814c910b>]  [<ffffffff814c910b>] mesh_path_send_to_gates+0x2b/0x740
[   23.925237] RSP: 0018:ffff88000b403d30  EFLAGS: 00010286
[   23.926739] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880009bc0d20 RCX: 0000000000000102
[   23.928796] RDX: 000000000000002e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff880009bc0d20
[   23.930895] RBP: ffff88000b403e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
[   23.932917] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff880009c20940
[   23.936370] R13: ffff880009bc0e70 R14: ffff880009c21c40 R15: ffff880009bc0d20
[   23.939823] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88000b400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   23.943688] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   23.946429] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000000099c5000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
[   23.949861] Stack:
[   23.950840]  000000000000002e ffff880009c20940 ffff88000b403da8 ffffffff8109e551
[   23.954467]  ffffffff82711be2 000000000000002e 0000000000000000 ffffffff8166a5f5
[   23.958141]  0000000000685ce8 0000000000000246 ffff880009bc0d20 ffff880009c20940
[   23.961801] Call Trace:
[   23.962987]  <IRQ>
[   23.963963]  [<ffffffff8109e551>] ? vprintk_emit+0x351/0x5e0
[   23.966782]  [<ffffffff8109e8ff>] ? vprintk_default+0x1f/0x30
[   23.969529]  [<ffffffff810ffa41>] ? printk+0x48/0x50
[   23.971956]  [<ffffffff814ceef3>] mesh_path_timer+0x133/0x160
[   23.974707]  [<ffffffff814cedc0>] ? mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x230/0x230
[   23.977775]  [<ffffffff810b04ee>] call_timer_fn+0xce/0x330
[   23.980448]  [<ffffffff810b0425>] ? call_timer_fn+0x5/0x330
[   23.983126]  [<ffffffff814cedc0>] ? mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x230/0x230
[   23.986091]  [<ffffffff810b097c>] run_timer_softirq+0x22c/0x390

Instead of cancelling in the RCU callback, set a new flag to prevent the
timer from being rearmed, and then cancel the timer synchronously when
freeing the mesh path.  This leaves mesh_path_reclaim() doing nothing
but kfree, so switch to kfree_rcu().

Fixes: 3b302ada7f0a ("mac80211: mesh: move path tables into if_mesh")
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/mesh.h
net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c