[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "batman-adv: Drop immediate orig_node free function" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    batman-adv: Drop immediate orig_node free function

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From eb9ed3eea613f0685c5b46c25e4b05b434f9e564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:06:20 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: Drop immediate orig_node free function

commit 42eff6a617e23b691f8e4467f4687ed7245a92db upstream.

It is not allowed to free the memory of an object which is part of a list
which is protected by rcu-read-side-critical sections without making sure
that no other context is accessing the object anymore. This usually happens
by removing the references to this object and then waiting until the rcu
grace period is over and no one (allowedly) accesses it anymore.

But the _now functions ignore this completely. They free the object
directly even when a different context still tries to access it. This has
to be avoided and thus these functions must be removed and all functions
have to use batadv_orig_node_free_ref.

Fixes: 72822225bd41 ("batman-adv: Fix rcu_barrier() miss due to double call_rcu() in TT code")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner at neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a at unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/batman-adv/originator.c        | 11 -----------
 net/batman-adv/originator.h        |  1 -
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/originator.c b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
index 2dd50cc29079..6b4adf1810d3 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -563,17 +563,6 @@ void batadv_orig_node_free_ref(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node)
 		batadv_orig_node_release(orig_node);
 }

-/**
- * batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now - decrement the orig node refcounter and
- * possibly free it (without rcu callback)
- * @orig_node: the orig node to free
- */
-void batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node)
-{
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&orig_node->refcount))
-		batadv_orig_node_free_rcu(&orig_node->rcu);
-}
-
 void batadv_originator_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
 {
 	struct batadv_hashtable *hash = bat_priv->orig_hash;
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/originator.h b/net/batman-adv/originator.h
index db3a9ed734cb..ce75339563b8 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.h
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ int batadv_originator_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
 void batadv_originator_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
 void batadv_purge_orig_ref(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
 void batadv_orig_node_free_ref(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node);
-void batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node);
 struct batadv_orig_node *batadv_orig_node_new(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 					      const uint8_t *addr);
 struct batadv_neigh_node *
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
index b3e61e575f06..57968d30f8c8 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -219,20 +219,6 @@ int batadv_tt_global_hash_count(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 	return count;
 }

-static void batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
-	struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry *orig_entry;
-
-	orig_entry = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry, rcu);
-
-	/* We are in an rcu callback here, therefore we cannot use
-	 * batadv_orig_node_free_ref() and its call_rcu():
-	 * An rcu_barrier() wouldn't wait for that to finish
-	 */
-	batadv_orig_node_free_ref_now(orig_entry->orig_node);
-	kfree(orig_entry);
-}
-
 /**
  * batadv_tt_local_size_mod - change the size by v of the local table identified
  *  by vid
@@ -328,13 +314,25 @@ static void batadv_tt_global_size_dec(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node,
 	batadv_tt_global_size_mod(orig_node, vid, -1);
 }

+/**
+ * batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release - release tt orig entry from lists and
+ *  queue for free after rcu grace period
+ * @orig_entry: tt orig entry to be free'd
+ */
+static void
+batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release(struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry *orig_entry)
+{
+	batadv_orig_node_free_ref(orig_entry->orig_node);
+	kfree_rcu(orig_entry, rcu);
+}
+
 static void
 batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_free_ref(struct batadv_tt_orig_list_entry *orig_entry)
 {
 	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&orig_entry->refcount))
 		return;

-	call_rcu(&orig_entry->rcu, batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_free_rcu);
+	batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release(orig_entry);
 }

 /**