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mac80211: mesh: flush paths outside of plink lock
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Lockdep warned of a lock dependency between the mesh_plink lock
and the internal lock for the rhashtable.  The problem is that
the rhashtable code uses a spin lock with softirqs enabled, while
mesh_plink_timer executes a walk (to flush paths on a state change)
inside a softirq with the plink lock held.

This leads to the following deadlock if the timer fires while rht
lock is held on this CPU, and plink lock is held on another CPU:

   CPU0                         CPU1
   ----                         ----
   lock(&(&ht->lock)->rlock);
                                local_irq_disable();
                                lock(&(&sta->mesh->plink_lock)->rlock);
                                lock(&(&ht->lock)->rlock);
   <Interrupt>
   lock(&(&sta->mesh->plink_lock)->rlock);
   *** DEADLOCK ***

Fix by waiting until we drop the plink lock to flush paths.

Fixes: d48a1b7 ("mac80211: mesh: convert path table to rhashtable")
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
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bcopeland authored and jmberg-intel committed Apr 5, 2016
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Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 2 deletions.
11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
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Expand Up @@ -331,7 +331,9 @@ static int mesh_plink_frame_tx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
*
* @sta: mesh peer link to deactivate
*
* All mesh paths with this peer as next hop will be flushed
* Mesh paths with this peer as next hop should be flushed
* by the caller outside of plink_lock.
*
* Returns beacon changed flag if the beacon content changed.
*
* Locking: the caller must hold sta->mesh->plink_lock
Expand All @@ -346,7 +348,6 @@ static u32 __mesh_plink_deactivate(struct sta_info *sta)
if (sta->mesh->plink_state == NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB)
changed = mesh_plink_dec_estab_count(sdata);
sta->mesh->plink_state = NL80211_PLINK_BLOCKED;
mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop(sta);

ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update(sta);
changed |= ieee80211_mps_set_sta_local_pm(sta,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -374,6 +375,7 @@ u32 mesh_plink_deactivate(struct sta_info *sta)
sta->sta.addr, sta->mesh->llid, sta->mesh->plid,
sta->mesh->reason);
spin_unlock_bh(&sta->mesh->plink_lock);
mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop(sta);

return changed;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -748,6 +750,7 @@ u32 mesh_plink_block(struct sta_info *sta)
changed = __mesh_plink_deactivate(sta);
sta->mesh->plink_state = NL80211_PLINK_BLOCKED;
spin_unlock_bh(&sta->mesh->plink_lock);
mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop(sta);

return changed;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -797,6 +800,7 @@ static u32 mesh_plink_fsm(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct mesh_config *mshcfg = &sdata->u.mesh.mshcfg;
enum ieee80211_self_protected_actioncode action = 0;
u32 changed = 0;
bool flush = false;

mpl_dbg(sdata, "peer %pM in state %s got event %s\n", sta->sta.addr,
mplstates[sta->mesh->plink_state], mplevents[event]);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -885,6 +889,7 @@ static u32 mesh_plink_fsm(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
changed |= mesh_set_short_slot_time(sdata);
mesh_plink_close(sdata, sta, event);
action = WLAN_SP_MESH_PEERING_CLOSE;
flush = true;
break;
case OPN_ACPT:
action = WLAN_SP_MESH_PEERING_CONFIRM;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -916,6 +921,8 @@ static u32 mesh_plink_fsm(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
break;
}
spin_unlock_bh(&sta->mesh->plink_lock);
if (flush)
mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop(sta);
if (action) {
mesh_plink_frame_tx(sdata, sta, action, sta->sta.addr,
sta->mesh->llid, sta->mesh->plid,
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