Patch "batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions

to the 4.8-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-modify-neigh_list-only-with-rcu-list-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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.


>From 9ca488dd53088d4fcc97258aeeccf21f63b7da1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:22:58 +0200
Subject: batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions
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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>

commit 9ca488dd53088d4fcc97258aeeccf21f63b7da1e upstream.

The batadv_hard_iface::neigh_list is accessed via rcu based primitives.
Thus all operations done on it have to fulfill the requirements by RCU. So
using non-RCU mechanisms like hlist_add_head is not allowed because it
misses the barriers required to protect concurrent readers when accessing
the data behind the pointer.

Fixes: cef63419f7db ("batman-adv: add list of unique single hop neighbors per hard-interface")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Acked-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/batman-adv/originator.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ batadv_hardif_neigh_create(struct batadv
 	if (bat_priv->algo_ops->neigh.hardif_init)
 		bat_priv->algo_ops->neigh.hardif_init(hardif_neigh);
 
-	hlist_add_head(&hardif_neigh->list, &hard_iface->neigh_list);
+	hlist_add_head_rcu(&hardif_neigh->list, &hard_iface->neigh_list);
 
 out:
 	spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->neigh_list_lock);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com are

queue-4.8/batman-adv-modify-neigh_list-only-with-rcu-list-functions.patch