iwlwifi: mvm: fix RCU splat in TKIP's update_key
authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Sun, 15 May 2016 07:20:29 +0000 (10:20 +0300)
committerLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:32:25 +0000 (13:32 +0300)
The commit below mistakenly changed an rcu_dereference_check
to a rcu_dereference_protected which introduced the
following RCU warning:

[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
 4.6.0-rc7-next-20160513-dbg-00004-g8de8b92-dirty #655 Not tainted
 -------------------------------
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mvm.h:1069 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8106b836>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xf7/0x100
  [<ffffffffa03b2321>] iwl_mvm_get_key_sta.part.0+0x5d/0x80 [iwlmvm]
  [<ffffffffa03b4acb>] iwl_mvm_update_tkip_key+0xd3/0x162 [iwlmvm]
  [<ffffffffa03a2b60>] iwl_mvm_mac_update_tkip_key+0x17/0x19 [iwlmvm]
  [<ffffffffa0329646>] ieee80211_tkip_decrypt_data+0x22c/0x24b [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa0318bb1>] ieee80211_crypto_tkip_decrypt+0xc5/0x110 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa033102e>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x9bb/0x1fe1 [mac80211]

Fixes: 13303c0fb148 ("iwlwifi: mvm: use helpers to get iwl_mvm_sta")
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c

index fea4d34..0454bfe 100644 (file)
@@ -1852,12 +1852,18 @@ static struct iwl_mvm_sta *iwl_mvm_get_key_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
            mvmvif->ap_sta_id != IWL_MVM_STATION_COUNT) {
                u8 sta_id = mvmvif->ap_sta_id;
 
+               sta = rcu_dereference_check(mvm->fw_id_to_mac_id[sta_id],
+                                           lockdep_is_held(&mvm->mutex));
+
                /*
                 * It is possible that the 'sta' parameter is NULL,
                 * for example when a GTK is removed - the sta_id will then
                 * be the AP ID, and no station was passed by mac80211.
                 */
-               return iwl_mvm_sta_from_staid_protected(mvm, sta_id);
+               if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sta))
+                       return NULL;
+
+               return iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211(sta);
        }
 
        return NULL;