linux/net
Emmanuel Grumbach 1d147bfa64 mac80211: fix AP powersave TX vs. wakeup race
There is a race between the TX path and the STA wakeup: while
a station is sleeping, mac80211 buffers frames until it wakes
up, then the frames are transmitted. However, the RX and TX
path are concurrent, so the packet indicating wakeup can be
processed while a packet is being transmitted.

This can lead to a situation where the buffered frames list
is emptied on the one side, while a frame is being added on
the other side, as the station is still seen as sleeping in
the TX path.

As a result, the newly added frame will not be send anytime
soon. It might be sent much later (and out of order) when the
station goes to sleep and wakes up the next time.

Additionally, it can lead to the crash below.

Fix all this by synchronising both paths with a new lock.
Both path are not fastpath since they handle PS situations.

In a later patch we'll remove the extra skb queue locks to
reduce locking overhead.

BUG: unable to handle kernel
NULL pointer dereference at 000000b0
IP: [<ff6f1791>] ieee80211_report_used_skb+0x11/0x3e0 [mac80211]
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
EIP: 0060:[<ff6f1791>] EFLAGS: 00210282 CPU: 1
EIP is at ieee80211_report_used_skb+0x11/0x3e0 [mac80211]
EAX: e5900da0 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000000
ESI: e41d00c0 EDI: e5900da0 EBP: ebe458e4 ESP: ebe458b0
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 000000b0 CR3: 25a78000 CR4: 000407d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
Process iperf (pid: 3934, ti=ebe44000 task=e757c0b0 task.ti=ebe44000)
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: I iwl_pcie_enqueue_hcmd Sending command LQ_CMD (#4e), seq: 0x0903, 92 bytes at 3[3]:9
Stack:
 e403b32c ebe458c4 00200002 00200286 e403b338 ebe458cc c10960bb e5900da0
 ff76a6ec ebe458d8 00000000 e41d00c0 e5900da0 ebe458f0 ff6f1b75 e403b210
 ebe4598c ff723dc1 00000000 ff76a6ec e597c978 e403b758 00000002 00000002
Call Trace:
 [<ff6f1b75>] ieee80211_free_txskb+0x15/0x20 [mac80211]
 [<ff723dc1>] invoke_tx_handlers+0x1661/0x1780 [mac80211]
 [<ff7248a5>] ieee80211_tx+0x75/0x100 [mac80211]
 [<ff7249bf>] ieee80211_xmit+0x8f/0xc0 [mac80211]
 [<ff72550e>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x4fe/0xe20 [mac80211]
 [<c149ef70>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x450/0x950
 [<c14b9aa9>] sch_direct_xmit+0xa9/0x250
 [<c14b9c9b>] __qdisc_run+0x4b/0x150
 [<c149f732>] dev_queue_xmit+0x2c2/0xca0

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yaara Rozenblum <yaara.rozenblum@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
[reword commit log, use a separate lock]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-20 10:32:29 +01:00
..
9p net/9p: remove virtio default hack and set appropriate bits instead 2013-11-23 16:13:36 -06:00
802 neigh: use NEIGH_VAR_INIT in ndo_neigh_setup functions. 2014-01-16 11:31:58 -08:00
8021q 8021q: Use ether_addr_copy 2014-01-21 18:13:04 -08:00
appletalk net: Fix some fallout from the etner_addr_copy() changes. 2014-01-21 18:57:26 -08:00
atm net: Fix some fallout from the etner_addr_copy() changes. 2014-01-21 18:57:26 -08:00
ax25 net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
batman-adv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-18 00:55:41 -08:00
bluetooth net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
bridge bridge: Remove unnecessary vlan_put_tag in br_handle_vlan 2014-01-22 21:29:27 -08:00
caif net: Missing change from the ether_addr_copy() fixups. 2014-01-21 22:54:01 -08:00
can net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
core net: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by skbuff.c 2014-01-28 18:06:06 -08:00
dcb dcb: use __dev_get_by_name instead of dev_get_by_name to find interface 2014-01-14 18:50:46 -08:00
dccp ipv4: introduce hardened ip_no_pmtu_disc mode 2014-01-13 11:22:55 -08:00
decnet net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
dns_resolver net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:57 -05:00
dsa dsa: Use ether_addr_copy 2014-01-21 18:13:05 -08:00
ethernet net: eth_type_trans() should use skb_header_pointer() 2014-01-16 15:30:31 -08:00
hsr net/hsr: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code 2013-12-17 16:32:30 -05:00
ieee802154 net: 6lowpan: fixup for code movement 2014-01-27 16:43:03 -08:00
ipv4 net: gre: use icmp_hdr() to get inner ip header 2014-01-27 20:38:26 -08:00
ipv6 net: Fix memory leak if TPROXY used with TCP early demux 2014-01-27 16:22:11 -08:00
ipx net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
irda net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
iucv net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
key xfrm: export verify_userspi_info for pkfey and netlink interface 2013-12-16 12:54:02 +01:00
l2tp ipv6: protect protocols not handling ipv4 from v4 connection/bind attempts 2014-01-21 16:59:19 -08:00
lapb net/lapb: re-send packets on timeout 2013-09-23 16:52:45 -04:00
llc llc: remove noisy WARN from llc_mac_hdr_init 2014-01-28 18:01:32 -08:00
mac80211 mac80211: fix AP powersave TX vs. wakeup race 2014-02-20 10:32:29 +01:00
mac802154 mac802154: fix following checkpath.pl warning Prefer pr_warn(... to pr_warning(... 2013-12-22 18:53:08 -05:00
mpls ipip: add GSO/TSO support 2013-10-19 19:36:19 -04:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
netlabel netlabel: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
netlink net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
netrom net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
nfc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
openvswitch net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom 2014-01-14 15:15:25 -08:00
packet af_packet: Add Queue mapping mode to af_packet fanout operation 2014-01-22 17:35:50 -08:00
phonet net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
rds net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
rfkill Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
rose net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
rxrpc RxRPC fixes 2014-01-28 18:04:18 -08:00
sched net: add and use skb_gso_transport_seglen() 2014-01-26 22:38:23 -08:00
sctp sctp: remove macros sctp_bh_[un]lock_sock 2014-01-21 18:41:36 -08:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-3.14' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2014-01-30 10:18:43 -08:00
tipc net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
unix net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
vmw_vsock net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
wimax wimax: remove dead code 2013-11-21 13:09:42 -05:00
wireless cfg80211: bugfix in regulatory user hint process 2014-02-19 11:56:48 +01:00
x25 net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
compat.c net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error 2013-11-29 16:12:52 -05:00
Kconfig net: netprio: rename config to be more consistent with cgroup configs 2014-01-03 23:41:42 +01:00
Makefile net: move 6lowpan compression code to separate module 2014-01-15 15:36:38 -08:00
nonet.c
socket.c net: handle error more gracefully in socketpair() 2013-12-10 22:24:13 -05:00
sysctl_net.c net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid 2013-10-07 15:57:56 -04:00