mac80211: safely free beacon in ieee80211_if_reinit

If ieee80211_if_reinit() is called from ieee80211_unregister_hw()
then it is possible that the driver will still request a beacon
(it is allowed to until ieee80211_unregister_hw() has returned.)
This means we need to use an RCU-protected write to the beacon
information even in this function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c
index f66f1ddc3fda..0d6824bca92b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ void ieee80211_if_reinit(struct net_device *dev)
                 /* Remove all virtual interfaces that use this BSS
                  * as their sdata->bss */
                 struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *tsdata, *n;
+                struct beacon_data *beacon;
 
                 list_for_each_entry_safe(tsdata, n, &local->interfaces, list) {
                         if (tsdata != sdata && tsdata->bss == &sdata->u.ap) {
@@ -210,7 +211,10 @@ void ieee80211_if_reinit(struct net_device *dev)
                         }
                 }
 
-                kfree(sdata->u.ap.beacon);
+                beacon = sdata->u.ap.beacon;
+                rcu_assign_pointer(sdata->u.ap.beacon, NULL);
+                synchronize_rcu();
+                kfree(beacon);
 
                 while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&sdata->u.ap.ps_bc_buf))) {
                         local->total_ps_buffered--;