From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: fix possible tid_rx->reorder_timer use after free
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:43:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319134259.GD6169@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332162477.3359.34.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:07:57PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I was actually thinking of using just del_timer(), but now that I think
> about it, should anything prevent us from using del_timer_sync() inside
> ieee80211_free_tid_rx?
Yes, call_rcu() callback can not sleep. Depending of RCU implementation
callback can run with bottom half disabled.
Stanislaw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-19 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-19 12:50 [RFC] mac80211: fix possible tid_rx->reorder_timer use after free Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-19 13:03 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-19 13:07 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-19 13:43 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2012-03-19 13:49 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-19 13:57 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-19 13:40 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-19 13:50 ` Johannes Berg
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