Patch "batman-adv: Drop immediate orig_node free function" has been added to the 4.3-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 orig_node free function

to the 4.3-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-orig_node-free-function.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 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 21:35:03 PST 2016
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:06:20 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: Drop immediate orig_node free function

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

[ Upstream commit 42eff6a617e23b691f8e4467f4687ed7245a92db ]

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_orig_node_free_ref.

Fixes: 72822225bd41 ("batman-adv: Fix rcu_barrier() miss due to double call_rcu() in TT code")
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        |   11 -----------
 net/batman-adv/originator.h        |    1 -
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c |   28 +++++++++++++---------------
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -601,17 +601,6 @@ void batadv_orig_node_free_ref(struct ba
 		batadv_orig_node_release(orig_node);
 }
 
-/**
- * batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now - decrement the orig node refcounter and
- * possibly free it (without rcu callback)
- * @orig_node: the orig node to free
- */
-void batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node)
-{
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&orig_node->refcount))
-		batadv_orig_node_free_rcu(&orig_node->rcu);
-}
-
 void batadv_originator_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
 {
 	struct batadv_hashtable *hash = bat_priv->orig_hash;
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.h
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ int batadv_originator_init(struct batadv
 void batadv_originator_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
 void batadv_purge_orig_ref(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
 void batadv_orig_node_free_ref(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node);
-void batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node);
 struct batadv_orig_node *batadv_orig_node_new(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 					      const u8 *addr);
 struct batadv_neigh_node *
--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -238,20 +238,6 @@ int batadv_tt_global_hash_count(struct b
 	return count;
 }
 
-static void batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
-	struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry *orig_entry;
-
-	orig_entry = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry, rcu);
-
-	/* We are in an rcu callback here, therefore we cannot use
-	 * batadv_orig_node_free_ref() and its call_rcu():
-	 * An rcu_barrier() wouldn't wait for that to finish
-	 */
-	batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now(orig_entry->orig_node);
-	kfree(orig_entry);
-}
-
 /**
  * batadv_tt_local_size_mod - change the size by v of the local table identified
  *  by vid
@@ -347,13 +333,25 @@ static void batadv_tt_global_size_dec(st
 	batadv_tt_global_size_mod(orig_node, vid, -1);
 }
 
+/**
+ * batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release - release tt orig entry from lists and
+ *  queue for free after rcu grace period
+ * @orig_entry: tt orig entry to be free'd
+ */
+static void
+batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release(struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry *orig_entry)
+{
+	batadv_orig_node_free_ref(orig_entry->orig_node);
+	kfree_rcu(orig_entry, rcu);
+}
+
 static void
 batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_free_ref(struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry *orig_entry)
 {
 	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&orig_entry->refcount))
 		return;
 
-	call_rcu(&orig_entry->rcu, batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_free_rcu);
+	batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release(orig_entry);
 }
 
 /**


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

queue-4.3/batman-adv-drop-immediate-batadv_neigh_node-free-function.patch
queue-4.3/batman-adv-drop-immediate-neigh_ifinfo-free-function.patch
queue-4.3/batman-adv-drop-immediate-orig_node-free-function.patch
queue-4.3/batman-adv-drop-immediate-batadv_orig_ifinfo-free-function.patch
queue-4.3/batman-adv-avoid-recursive-call_rcu-for-batadv_nc_node.patch
queue-4.3/batman-adv-drop-immediate-batadv_hard_iface-free-function.patch
queue-4.3/batman-adv-avoid-recursive-call_rcu-for-batadv_bla_claim.patch