linux/net
Christian Lamparter f9e124fbd8 mac80211: protect rx-path with spinlock
This patch fixes the problem which was discussed in
"mac80211: Fix PN corruption in case of multiple
virtual interface" [1].

Amit Shakya reported a serious issue with my patch:
mac80211: serialize rx path workers" [2]:

In case, ieee80211_rx_handlers processing is going on
for skbs received on one vif and at the same time, rx
aggregation reorder timer expires on another vif then
sta_rx_agg_reorder_timer_expired is invoked and it will
push skbs into the single queue (local->rx_skb_queue).

ieee80211_rx_handlers in the while loop assumes that
the skbs are for the same sdata and sta. This assumption
doesn't hold good in this scenario and the PN gets
corrupted by PN received in other vif's skb, causing
traffic to stop due to PN mismatch."

[1] Message-Id: http://mid.gmane.org/201302041844.44436.chunkeey@googlemail.com
[2] Commit-Id: 24a8fdad35

Reported-by: Amit Shakya <amit.shakya@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:55 +01:00
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9p virtio: 9p: correctly pass physical address to userspace for high pages 2012-10-22 18:19:36 +10:30
802
8021q 8021q: fix vlan device to inherit the unicast filtering capability flag 2012-11-30 12:07:27 -05:00
appletalk userns: Print out socket uids in a user namespace aware fashion. 2012-08-14 21:48:06 -07:00
atm atm: use scnprintf() instead of sprintf() 2012-12-17 20:50:51 -08:00
ax25 userns: Convert net/ax25 to use kuid_t where appropriate 2012-08-14 21:49:42 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: use ETH_P_BATMAN 2012-11-30 10:50:22 +01:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Refactor mgmt_pending_foreach 2013-02-01 15:50:18 -02:00
bridge bridge: Correctly encode addresses when dumping mdb entries 2012-12-19 12:50:06 -08:00
caif caif_usb: Make the driver name check more efficient 2012-12-09 00:34:02 -05:00
can Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2012-12-20 14:00:13 -08:00
core Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-12-18 10:55:28 -08:00
dcb net: Allow DCBnl to use other namespaces besides init_net 2012-12-10 14:09:01 -05:00
dccp inet: Fix kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
decnet net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methods 2012-11-18 20:32:44 -05:00
dns_resolver Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2012-12-16 15:40:50 -08:00
dsa dsa: Hide core config options; make drivers select what they need 2012-11-26 17:10:44 -05:00
ethernet ipx: move peII functions 2012-07-19 10:48:00 -07:00
ieee802154 6lowpan: consider checksum bytes in fragmentation threshold 2012-11-30 12:19:24 -05:00
ipv4 inet: Fix kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
ipv6 ipv6: addrconf.c: remove unnecessary "if" 2012-12-19 12:50:06 -08:00
ipx userns: Print out socket uids in a user namespace aware fashion. 2012-08-14 21:48:06 -07:00
irda TTY/Serial merge for 3.8-rc1 2012-12-11 14:08:47 -08:00
iucv
key net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-11-10 18:32:51 -05:00
lapb
llc net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
mac80211 mac80211: protect rx-path with spinlock 2013-02-11 18:44:55 +01:00
mac802154 mac802154: fix destructon ordering for ieee802154 devices 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
netfilter Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
netlabel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
netlink netlink: validate addr_len on bind 2012-12-17 20:50:51 -08:00
netrom net: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM 2012-09-21 13:58:08 -04:00
nfc NFC: llcp: integer underflow in nfc_llcp_set_remote_gb() 2013-02-08 14:51:31 -05:00
openvswitch openvswitch: Use RCU callback when detaching netdevices. 2012-11-28 14:04:34 -08:00
packet net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
phonet net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methods 2012-11-18 20:32:44 -05:00
rds net: rds: use this_cpu_* per-cpu helper 2012-11-19 18:59:44 -05:00
rfkill Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
rose
rxrpc Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-12-12 18:07:07 -08:00
sctp sctp: jsctp_sf_eat_sack: fix jprobes function signature mismatch 2012-12-15 17:14:39 -08:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2012-12-20 14:04:11 -08:00
tipc tipc: refactor accept() code for improved readability 2012-12-07 17:23:24 -05:00
unix net: Don't export sysctls to unprivileged users 2012-11-18 20:30:55 -05:00
wanrouter wanmain: comparing array with NULL 2012-07-24 13:55:21 -07:00
wimax
wireless cfg80211: pass wiphy to cfg80211_ref_bss/put_bss 2013-02-11 18:44:52 +01:00
x25 net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2012-11-22 15:25:55 -05:00
compat.c make get_file() return its argument 2012-09-26 21:10:25 -04:00
Kconfig net: Add INET dependency on aes crypto for the sake of TCP fastopen. 2012-09-04 14:20:14 -04:00
Makefile ipv6: Preserve ipv6 functionality needed by NET 2012-11-18 02:34:00 -05:00
nonet.c
socket.c cgroup: net_cls: Rework update socket logic 2012-10-26 03:40:51 -04:00
sysctl_net.c user_ns: get rid of duplicate code in net_ctl_permissions 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00