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| author | Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> | 2015-07-21 16:44:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> | 2015-07-30 14:08:55 +0200 |
| commit | c22ff7b4e74d8136a9911d8b8d0f25f9f7c3edc1 (patch) | |
| tree | 172c0937f69b785793e1f2e63776341833c5800b /net/mac802154/tx.c | |
| parent | at86rf230: remove hrtimer on 1 usec delay (diff) | |
| download | linux-c22ff7b4e74d8136a9911d8b8d0f25f9f7c3edc1.tar.xz linux-c22ff7b4e74d8136a9911d8b8d0f25f9f7c3edc1.zip | |
mac802154: Fix memory corruption with global deferred transmit state.
When transmitting a packet via a mac802154 driver that can sleep in
its transmit function, mac802154 defers the call to the driver's
transmit function to a per-device workqueue.
However, mac802154 uses a single global work_struct for this, which
means that if you have more than one registered mac802154 interface
in the system, and you transmit on more than one of them at the same
time, you'll very easily cause memory corruption.
This patch moves the deferred transmit processing state from global
variables to struct ieee802154_local, and this seems to fix the memory
corruption issue.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac802154/tx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac802154/tx.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac802154/tx.c b/net/mac802154/tx.c index c62e95695c78..7ed439172f30 100644 --- a/net/mac802154/tx.c +++ b/net/mac802154/tx.c @@ -30,23 +30,11 @@ #include "ieee802154_i.h" #include "driver-ops.h" -/* IEEE 802.15.4 transceivers can sleep during the xmit session, so process - * packets through the workqueue. - */ -struct ieee802154_xmit_cb { - struct sk_buff *skb; - struct work_struct work; - struct ieee802154_local *local; -}; - -static struct ieee802154_xmit_cb ieee802154_xmit_cb; - -static void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work) +void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work) { - struct ieee802154_xmit_cb *cb = - container_of(work, struct ieee802154_xmit_cb, work); - struct ieee802154_local *local = cb->local; - struct sk_buff *skb = cb->skb; + struct ieee802154_local *local = + container_of(work, struct ieee802154_local, tx_work); + struct sk_buff *skb = local->tx_skb; struct net_device *dev = skb->dev; int res; @@ -106,11 +94,8 @@ ieee802154_tx(struct ieee802154_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb) dev->stats.tx_packets++; dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; } else { - INIT_WORK(&ieee802154_xmit_cb.work, ieee802154_xmit_worker); - ieee802154_xmit_cb.skb = skb; - ieee802154_xmit_cb.local = local; - - queue_work(local->workqueue, &ieee802154_xmit_cb.work); + local->tx_skb = skb; + queue_work(local->workqueue, &local->tx_work); } return NETDEV_TX_OK; |