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authorSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>2016-07-29 15:37:54 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-07-30 21:11:08 -0700
commit36b232c880c99fc03e135198c7c08d3d4b4f83ab (patch)
tree619366c479c5678cda7783f575b1a0e64d66cd9c
parentmacsec: fix reference counting on RXSC in macsec_handle_frame (diff)
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macsec: RXSAs don't need to hold a reference on RXSCs
Following the previous patch, RXSCs are held and properly refcounted in the RX path (instead of being implicitly held by their SA), so the SA doesn't need to hold a reference on its parent RXSC. This also avoids panics on module unload caused by the double layer of RCU callbacks (call_rcu frees the RXSA, which puts the final reference on the RXSC and allows to free it in its own call_rcu) that commit b196c22af5c3 ("macsec: add rcu_barrier() on module exit") didn't protect against. There were also some refcounting bugs in macsec_add_rxsa where I didn't put the reference on the RXSC on the error paths, which would lead to memory leaks. Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macsec.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index 718cf98023ff..7f5c5e0f9cf9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -344,7 +344,6 @@ static void free_rxsa(struct rcu_head *head)
crypto_free_aead(sa->key.tfm);
free_percpu(sa->stats);
- macsec_rxsc_put(sa->sc);
kfree(sa);
}
@@ -1653,7 +1652,7 @@ static int macsec_add_rxsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
rtnl_lock();
rx_sc = get_rxsc_from_nl(genl_info_net(info), attrs, tb_rxsc, &dev, &secy);
- if (IS_ERR(rx_sc) || !macsec_rxsc_get(rx_sc)) {
+ if (IS_ERR(rx_sc)) {
rtnl_unlock();
return PTR_ERR(rx_sc);
}