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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2016-01-14 15:28:19 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>2016-01-16 22:48:29 +0800
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batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_bla_claim
The batadv_claim_free_ref function uses call_rcu to delay the free of the batadv_bla_claim object until no (already started) rcu_read_lock is enabled anymore. This makes sure that no context is still trying to access the object which should be removed. But batadv_bla_claim also contains a reference to backbone_gw which must be removed. The reference drop of backbone_gw was done in the call_rcu function batadv_claim_free_rcu but should actually be done in the batadv_claim_release function to avoid nested call_rcus. This is important because rcu_barrier (e.g. batadv_softif_free or batadv_exit) will not detect the inner call_rcu as relevant for its execution. Otherwise this barrier will most likely be inserted in the queue before the callback of the first call_rcu was executed. The caller of rcu_barrier will therefore continue to run before the inner call_rcu callback finished. Fixes: 23721387c409 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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