The hard_if_event is called by the notifier with rtnl_lock and tries to
remove sysfs entries when a NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is received. This
will automatically take the s_active lock.
The s_active lock is also used when a new interface is added to a meshif
through sysfs. In that situation we cannot wait for the rntl_lock before
creating the actual batman-adv interface to prevent a deadlock. It is
still possible to try to get the rtnl_lock and immediately abort the
current operation when the trylock call failed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
hardif_list_lock is unneccessary because we already ensure that no
multiple admin operations can take place through rtnl_lock.
hardif_list_lock only adds additional overhead and complexity.
Critical functions now check whether they are called with rtnl_lock
using ASSERT_RTNL.
It indirectly fixes the problem that orig_hash_del_if() expects that
only one interface is deleted from hardif_list at a time, but
hardif_remove_interfaces() removes all at once and then calls
orig_hash_del_if().
Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same
rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the
refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the
refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount
operations have to be atomic.
Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
