ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() must be called under the RCU lock and the resulting pointer is only valid under RCU lock as well.
Fix ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_peer_stats_info() to hold RCU lock before it calls ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() and release it when the resulting pointer is no longer needed. This problem was found while reviewing code to debug RCU warn from ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/7230c9e5-2632-b77e-c4f9-10eca557a...@linuxfoundation.org/ Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <sk...@linuxfoundation.org> --- Changes since v1: - v1 also included fix to ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info() RCU wrn which was already fixed. v2 drops that and fixes just ath10k_wmi_event_tdls_peer() drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c index bfdd017f1405..d97b33f789e4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c @@ -576,13 +576,13 @@ static void ath10k_wmi_event_tdls_peer(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb) case WMI_TDLS_TEARDOWN_REASON_TX: case WMI_TDLS_TEARDOWN_REASON_RSSI: case WMI_TDLS_TEARDOWN_REASON_PTR_TIMEOUT: + rcu_read_lock(); station = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(ar->hw, ev->peer_macaddr.addr, NULL); if (!station) { ath10k_warn(ar, "did not find station from tdls peer event"); - kfree(tb); - return; + goto exit; } arvif = ath10k_get_arvif(ar, __le32_to_cpu(ev->vdev_id)); ieee80211_tdls_oper_request( @@ -593,6 +593,9 @@ static void ath10k_wmi_event_tdls_peer(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb) ); break; } + +exit: + rcu_read_unlock(); kfree(tb); } -- 2.27.0
