* [PATCH] mac80211: don't use napi_gro_receive() outside NAPI context
@ 2015-05-19 13:46 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2015-05-19 13:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless; +Cc: Johannes Berg
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
No matter how the driver manages its NAPI context, there's no way
sending frames to it from a timer can be correct, since it would
corrupt the internal GRO lists.
To avoid that, always use the non-NAPI path when releasing frames
from the timer.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Jean Trivelly <jean.trivelly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 3 +++
net/mac80211/rx.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 2c4fe45ea38a..caacd83cff18 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ enum ieee80211_packet_rx_flags {
* @IEEE80211_RX_CMNTR: received on cooked monitor already
* @IEEE80211_RX_BEACON_REPORTED: This frame was already reported
* to cfg80211_report_obss_beacon().
+ * @IEEE80211_RX_REORDER_TIMER: this frame is released by the
+ * reorder buffer timeout timer, not the normal RX path
*
* These flags are used across handling multiple interfaces
* for a single frame.
@@ -209,6 +211,7 @@ enum ieee80211_packet_rx_flags {
enum ieee80211_rx_flags {
IEEE80211_RX_CMNTR = BIT(0),
IEEE80211_RX_BEACON_REPORTED = BIT(1),
+ IEEE80211_RX_REORDER_TIMER = BIT(2),
};
struct ieee80211_rx_data {
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index aa35977a9c4d..7d85f7516324 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2108,7 +2108,8 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
/* deliver to local stack */
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
- if (rx->local->napi)
+ if (!(rx->flags & IEEE80211_RX_REORDER_TIMER) &&
+ rx->local->napi)
napi_gro_receive(rx->local->napi, skb);
else
netif_receive_skb(skb);
@@ -3215,7 +3216,7 @@ void ieee80211_release_reorder_timeout(struct sta_info *sta, int tid)
/* This is OK -- must be QoS data frame */
.security_idx = tid,
.seqno_idx = tid,
- .flags = 0,
+ .flags = IEEE80211_RX_REORDER_TIMER,
};
struct tid_ampdu_rx *tid_agg_rx;
--
2.1.4
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