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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix and simplify mesh locking
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 11:20:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305364803.3437.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305363652.3437.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20110514_110059_273421_3D561F0E)

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 11:00 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> The locking in mesh_{mpath,mpp}_table_grow not only
> has an rcu_read_unlock() missing, it's also racy
> (though really only technically since it's invoked
> from a single function only) since it obtains the
> new size of the table without any locking, so two
> invocations of the function could attempt the same
> resize.

Actually, it _can_ happen, if you have multiple mesh interfaces.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-14  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-14  9:00 [PATCH] mac80211: fix and simplify mesh locking Johannes Berg
2011-05-14  9:20 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-05-17 23:05   ` Javier Cardona
2011-05-17 23:13     ` [PATCH] mac80211: Don't sleep when growing the mesh path Javier Cardona
2011-05-18 22:45     ` [PATCH] mac80211: fix and simplify mesh locking Johannes Berg
2011-05-19  1:40       ` Javier Cardona
2011-05-19  4:14         ` Johannes Berg

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