[039/165] mac80211: fix a few RCU issues

[Greg KH]

2.6.39-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit a3836e02ba4c50db958d32d710b226f2408623dc upstream.

A few configuration functions correctly do
rcu_read_lock() but don't correctly reference
some pointers protected by RCU. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -228,11 +228,11 @@ static int ieee80211_get_key(struct wiph
 			goto out;
 
 		if (pairwise)
-			key = sta->ptk;
+			key = rcu_dereference(sta->ptk);
 		else if (key_idx < NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS)
-			key = sta->gtk[key_idx];
+			key = rcu_dereference(sta->gtk[key_idx]);
 	} else
-		key = sdata->keys[key_idx];
+		key = rcu_dereference(sdata->keys[key_idx]);
 
 	if (!key)
 		goto out;
@@ -921,8 +921,10 @@ static int ieee80211_change_mpath(struct
 static void mpath_set_pinfo(struct mesh_path *mpath, u8 *next_hop,
 			    struct mpath_info *pinfo)
 {
-	if (mpath->next_hop)
-		memcpy(next_hop, mpath->next_hop->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
+	struct sta_info *next_hop_sta = rcu_dereference(mpath->next_hop);
+
+	if (next_hop_sta)
+		memcpy(next_hop, next_hop_sta->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
 	else
 		memset(next_hop, 0, ETH_ALEN);
 


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