Patch "batman-adv: Make NC capability changes atomic" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

Patch "batman-adv: Make NC capability changes atomic" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    batman-adv: Make NC capability changes atomic

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     batman-adv-make-nc-capability-changes-atomic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


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From: =?UTF-8?q?Linus=20L=C3=BCssing?= <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:10:23 +0200
Subject: batman-adv: Make NC capability changes atomic
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Linus=20L=C3=BCssing?= <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

commit 4635469f5c617282f18c69643af36cd8c0acf707 upstream.

Bitwise OR/AND assignments in C aren't guaranteed to be atomic. One
OGM handler might undo the set/clear of a specific bit from another
handler run in between.

Fix this by using the atomic set_bit()/clear_bit()/test_bit() functions.

Fixes: 3f4841ffb336 ("batman-adv: tvlv - add network coding container")
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/batman-adv/network-coding.c |    7 ++++---
 net/batman-adv/types.h          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
 
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 
 #include "main.h"
@@ -105,9 +106,9 @@ static void batadv_nc_tvlv_ogm_handler_v
 					  uint16_t tvlv_value_len)
 {
 	if (flags & BATADV_TVLV_HANDLER_OGM_CIFNOTFND)
-		orig->capabilities &= ~BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC;
+		clear_bit(BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC, &orig->capabilities);
 	else
-		orig->capabilities |= BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC;
+		set_bit(BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC, &orig->capabilities);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -871,7 +872,7 @@ void batadv_nc_update_nc_node(struct bat
 		goto out;
 
 	/* check if orig node is network coding enabled */
-	if (!(orig_node->capabilities & BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC))
+	if (!test_bit(BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC, &orig_node->capabilities))
 		goto out;
 
 	/* accept ogms from 'good' neighbors and single hop neighbors */
--- a/net/batman-adv/types.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/types.h
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ struct batadv_orig_node {
  */
 enum batadv_orig_capabilities {
 	BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_DAT,
-	BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC = BIT(1),
+	BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_NC,
 	BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_TT = BIT(2),
 	BATADV_ORIG_CAPA_HAS_MCAST = BIT(3),
 };


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linus.luessing@c0d3.blue are

queue-4.1/batman-adv-fix-potential-synchronization-issues-in-mcast-tvlv-handler.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-make-tt-capability-changes-atomic.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-make-dat-capability-changes-atomic.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-make-nc-capability-changes-atomic.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-fix-potentially-broken-skb-network-header-access.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-make-mcast-capability-changes-atomic.patch