Patch "batman-adv: Drop immediate batadv_neigh_node free function" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    batman-adv: Drop immediate batadv_neigh_node free function

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-drop-immediate-batadv_neigh_node-free-function.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.


>From foo@baz Tue Jan 26 21:37:04 PST 2016
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:06:22 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: Drop immediate batadv_neigh_node free function

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

[ Upstream commit 2baa753c276f27f8e844637561ad597867aa6fb6 ]

It is not allowed to free the memory of an object which is part of a list
which is protected by rcu-read-side-critical sections without making sure
that no other context is accessing the object anymore. This usually happens
by removing the references to this object and then waiting until the rcu
grace period is over and no one (allowedly) accesses it anymore.

But the _now functions ignore this completely. They free the object
directly even when a different context still tries to access it. This has
to be avoided and thus these functions must be removed and all functions
have to use batadv_neigh_node_free_ref.

Fixes: 89652331c00f ("batman-adv: split tq information in neigh_node struct")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/batman-adv/originator.c |   33 ++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -210,20 +210,8 @@ static void batadv_neigh_node_free_rcu(s
 }
 
 /**
- * batadv_neigh_node_free_ref_now - decrement the neighbors refcounter
- *  and possibly free it (without rcu callback)
- * @neigh_node: neigh neighbor to free
- */
-static void
-batadv_neigh_node_free_ref_now(struct batadv_neigh_node *neigh_node)
-{
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&neigh_node->refcount))
-		batadv_neigh_node_free_rcu(&neigh_node->rcu);
-}
-
-/**
  * batadv_neigh_node_free_ref - decrement the neighbors refcounter
- *  and possibly free it
+ *  and possibly release it
  * @neigh_node: neigh neighbor to free
  */
 void batadv_neigh_node_free_ref(struct batadv_neigh_node *neigh_node)
@@ -495,24 +483,23 @@ batadv_neigh_node_get(const struct batad
 }
 
 /**
- * batadv_orig_ifinfo_free_rcu - free the orig_ifinfo object
- * @rcu: rcu pointer of the orig_ifinfo object
+ * batadv_orig_ifinfo_release - release orig_ifinfo from lists and queue for
+ *  free after rcu grace period
+ * @orig_ifinfo: the orig_ifinfo object to release
  */
-static void batadv_orig_ifinfo_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+static void batadv_orig_ifinfo_release(struct batadv_orig_ifinfo *orig_ifinfo)
 {
-	struct batadv_orig_ifinfo *orig_ifinfo;
 	struct batadv_neigh_node *router;
 
-	orig_ifinfo = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_orig_ifinfo, rcu);
-
 	if (orig_ifinfo->if_outgoing != BATADV_IF_DEFAULT)
-		batadv_hardif_free_ref_now(orig_ifinfo->if_outgoing);
+		batadv_hardif_free_ref(orig_ifinfo->if_outgoing);
 
 	/* this is the last reference to this object */
 	router = rcu_dereference_protected(orig_ifinfo->router, true);
 	if (router)
-		batadv_neigh_node_free_ref_now(router);
-	kfree(orig_ifinfo);
+		batadv_neigh_node_free_ref(router);
+
+	kfree_rcu(orig_ifinfo, rcu);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -523,7 +510,7 @@ static void batadv_orig_ifinfo_free_rcu(
 void batadv_orig_ifinfo_free_ref(struct batadv_orig_ifinfo *orig_ifinfo)
 {
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&orig_ifinfo->refcount))
-		call_rcu(&orig_ifinfo->rcu, batadv_orig_ifinfo_free_rcu);
+		batadv_orig_ifinfo_release(orig_ifinfo);
 }
 
 /**


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sven@narfation.org are

queue-4.1/batman-adv-drop-immediate-batadv_neigh_node-free-function.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-drop-immediate-neigh_ifinfo-free-function.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-drop-immediate-orig_node-free-function.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-drop-immediate-batadv_orig_ifinfo-free-function.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-avoid-recursive-call_rcu-for-batadv_nc_node.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-drop-immediate-batadv_hard_iface-free-function.patch
queue-4.1/batman-adv-avoid-recursive-call_rcu-for-batadv_bla_claim.patch