Re: [PATCH] mac80211: mesh: fix RCU warning

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 15:21 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> ifmsh->csa was being dereferenced without the RCU read
> lock held.

> +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
> @@ -1220,10 +1220,12 @@ int ieee80211_mesh_finish_csa(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>  	ifmsh->chsw_ttl = 0;
>  
>  	/* Remove the CSA and MCSP elements from the beacon */
> +	rcu_read_lock();
>  	tmp_csa_settings = rcu_dereference(ifmsh->csa);
>  	RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifmsh->csa, NULL);
>  	if (tmp_csa_settings)
>  		kfree_rcu(tmp_csa_settings, rcu_head);
> +	rcu_read_unlock();

This seems wrong to me.

Really this code is the *writer* side, so you should do something like
this:

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 766e5e5bab8a..d578147ad7e8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -1220,7 +1220,8 @@ int ieee80211_mesh_finish_csa(struct
ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 	ifmsh->chsw_ttl = 0;
 
 	/* Remove the CSA and MCSP elements from the beacon */
-	tmp_csa_settings = rcu_dereference(ifmsh->csa);
+	tmp_csa_settings = rcu_dereference_protected(ifmsh->csa,
+				lockdep_is_held(&sdata->wdev.mtx));
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifmsh->csa, NULL);
 	if (tmp_csa_settings)
 		kfree_rcu(tmp_csa_settings, rcu_head);
@@ -1242,6 +1243,8 @@ int ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon(struct
ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	struct mesh_csa_settings *tmp_csa_settings;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(&sdata->wdev.mtx);
+
 	tmp_csa_settings = kmalloc(sizeof(*tmp_csa_settings),
 				   GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!tmp_csa_settings)


Can you test that and send a proper patch?

johannes