From patchwork Fri Jun 7 20:29:19 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 249818 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAF62C00AB for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:29:38 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul3Hw-0002Qx-0M; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:29:32 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul3Hn-0002Nn-Lx for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:29:23 +0000 Received: from c-67-160-231-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.160.231.42] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul3Hm-0001cM-Ji; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:29:22 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul3Hj-0000GQ-N9; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:29:19 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Johannes Berg Subject: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mac80211: close AP_VLAN interfaces before unregistering all" has been added to staging queue Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:29:19 -0700 Message-Id: <1370636959-981-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Eric Dumazet X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled mac80211: close AP_VLAN interfaces before unregistering all to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.3. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From cdc0a2e8a0addd34d861719f55252f9a99d1afd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 01:06:09 +0200 Subject: mac80211: close AP_VLAN interfaces before unregistering all commit c8aa22db0112f640ac6631347f850879c621840b upstream. Since Eric's commit efe117ab8 ("Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces") there's a bug in mac80211 when it unregisters with AP_VLAN interfaces up. If the AP_VLAN interface was registered after the AP it belongs to (which is the typical case) and then we get into this code path, unregister_netdevice_many() will crash because it isn't prepared to deal with interfaces being closed in the middle of it. Exactly this happens though, because we iterate the list, find the AP master this AP_VLAN belongs to and dev_close() the dependent VLANs. After this, unregister_netdevice_many() won't pick up the fact that the AP_VLAN is already down and will do it again, causing a crash. Cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) -- 1.8.1.2 diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index 8be854e..00bd646 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1657,6 +1657,15 @@ void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local) ASSERT_RTNL(); + /* + * Close all AP_VLAN interfaces first, as otherwise they + * might be closed while the AP interface they belong to + * is closed, causing unregister_netdevice_many() to crash. + */ + list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) + dev_close(sdata->dev); + mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx); list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &local->interfaces, list) { list_del(&sdata->list);