[PATCH wireless-next 2/2] wifi: mac80211: fix RCU usage in peer probing
Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 10:40:10 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless |
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| Message-ID | <20260802104010.6c09477032c4.If024b480b96bf9fe7baa821ed48b80be322d1e44@changeid> |
From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Converting the station and chanctx lookups to wiphy_dereference() was correct for the function itself but removed the rcu_read_lock() for the later transmit, which requires it, as well. Fix that. Found with the ap_open_poll_sta hwsim test, which reports net/mac80211/tx.c:608 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! (and four more like it). Fixes: 1c3f880ed00e ("wifi: mac80211: implement STA-mode peer probing") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> --- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index d42f8df9badc..23ae81b88669 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -5035,7 +5035,9 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_peer(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, } local_bh_disable(); + rcu_read_lock(); ieee80211_xmit(sdata, sta, skb); + rcu_read_unlock(); local_bh_enable(); return 0; -- 2.55.0