From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@web.de>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix general protection fault in batadv_tt_global_del_orig()
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:30:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363487457-5413-1-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de> (raw)
On shutdown a race condition where we access a just freed global TT hash
might occure:
batadv_mesh_free()->batadv_originator_free() schedules the
batadv_orig_node_free_rcu().
Before batadv_orig_node_free_rcu() is executed (which happens on the
rcu_barrier() call in batadv_exit() the latest),
batadv_mesh_free()->batadv_tt_free()->batadv_tt_global_table_free()->
batadv_hash_destroy(hash)->kfree(hash)
is called, freeing the global tt hash.
When batadv_orig_node_free_rcu()->batadv_tt_global_del_orig() now gets
executed it tries to access this just freed global tt hash, causing a
kernel panic.
This patch tries to fix this by waiting for any just scheduled
batadv_orig_node_free_rcu() to finish via an extra rcu_barrier() call
before freeing the global TT hash.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
---
Ref: #169
main.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 62b1f89..0afc171 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -164,6 +164,11 @@ void batadv_mesh_free(struct net_device *soft_iface)
batadv_gw_node_purge(bat_priv);
batadv_originator_free(bat_priv);
+
+ /* Wait for any batadv_orig_node_free_rcu() to finish,
+ * they access the soon to be freed global TT hash */
+ rcu_barrier();
+
batadv_nc_free(bat_priv);
batadv_tt_free(bat_priv);
--
1.7.10.4
next reply other threads:[~2013-03-17 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-17 2:30 Linus Lüssing [this message]
2013-03-17 2:42 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix general protection fault in batadv_tt_global_del_orig() Linus Lüssing
2013-03-17 3:22 ` "Linus Lüssing"
2013-03-17 4:44 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/2] batman-adv: Fix rcu_barrier() miss due to double call_rcu() in TT code Linus Lüssing
2013-03-17 4:44 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/2] batman-adv: Fix general protection fault in batadv_tt_global_del_orig() Linus Lüssing
2013-03-30 13:16 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-04-17 12:58 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-03-30 13:10 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/2] batman-adv: Fix rcu_barrier() miss due to double call_rcu() in TT code Antonio Quartulli
2013-04-03 1:25 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 " Linus Lüssing
2013-04-03 8:11 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-04-15 13:48 ` Marek Lindner
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