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mac80211: mesh: fix premature update of rc stats

The mesh_neighbour_update() function, queued via beacon rx, can race with
userspace creating the same station. If the station already exists by the
time mesh_neighbour_update() is called, the function wrongly assumes rate
control has been initialized and calls rate_control_rate_update(), which
in turn calls into the driver.

Updating the rate control before it has been initialized can cause a
crash in some drivers, for example this firmware crash in ath10k due
to sta->rx_nss being 0:

[ 3078.088247] mesh0: Inserted STA 5c:e2:8c:f1:ab:ba
[ 3078.258407] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: firmware crashed! (uuid d6ed5961-93cc-4d61-803f-5eda55bb8643)
[ 3078.258421] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c chip_id 0x043202ff sub 0000:0000
[ 3078.258426] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: kconfig debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 3078.258608] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: firmware ver 10.2.4.70.59-2 api 5 features no-p2p,raw-mode,mfp crc32 4159f498
[ 3078.258613] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 bebc7c08
[ 3078.258617] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 cal otp max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 3078.260627] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: firmware register dump:
[ 3078.260640] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [00]: 0x4100016C 0x000015B3 0x009A31BB 0x00955B31
[ 3078.260647] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [04]: 0x009A31BB 0x00060130 0x00000008 0x00000007
[ 3078.260652] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [08]: 0x00000000 0x00955B31 0x00000000 0x0040F89E
[ 3078.260656] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [12]: 0x00000009 0xFFFFFFFF 0x009580F5 0x00958117
[ 3078.260660] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [16]: 0x00958080 0x0094085D 0x00000000 0x00000000
[ 3078.260664] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [20]: 0x409A31BB 0x0040AA84 0x00000002 0x00000001
[ 3078.260669] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [24]: 0x809A2B8D 0x0040AAE4 0x00000088 0xC09A31BB
[ 3078.260673] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [28]: 0x809898C8 0x0040AB04 0x0043F91C 0x009C6458
[ 3078.260677] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [32]: 0x809B66AC 0x0040AB34 0x009C6458 0x0043F91C
[ 3078.260686] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [36]: 0x809B2824 0x0040ADA4 0x00400000 0x00416EB4
[ 3078.260692] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [40]: 0x809C07D9 0x0040ADE4 0x0040AE08 0x00412028
[ 3078.260696] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [44]: 0x809486FA 0x0040AE04 0x00000001 0x00000000
[ 3078.260700] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [48]: 0x80948E2C 0x0040AEA4 0x0041F4F0 0x00412634
[ 3078.260704] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [52]: 0x809BFC39 0x0040AEC4 0x0041F4F0 0x00000001
[ 3078.260709] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: [56]: 0x80940F18 0x0040AF14 0x00000010 0x00403AC0
[ 3078.284130] ath10k_pci 0000:0d:00.0: failed to to request monitor vdev 1 stop: -108

Fix this by checking whether the sta has already initialized rate control
using the flag for that purpose. We can also drop the unnecessary insert
parameter here.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <bobcopeland@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

authored by

Bob Copeland and committed by
Johannes Berg
1d6741d8 1039d081

+4 -4
+4 -4
net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
··· 401 401 402 402 static void mesh_sta_info_init(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, 403 403 struct sta_info *sta, 404 - struct ieee802_11_elems *elems, bool insert) 404 + struct ieee802_11_elems *elems) 405 405 { 406 406 struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local; 407 407 struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband; ··· 447 447 sta->sta.bandwidth = IEEE80211_STA_RX_BW_20; 448 448 } 449 449 450 - if (insert) 450 + if (!test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_RATE_CONTROL)) 451 451 rate_control_rate_init(sta); 452 452 else 453 453 rate_control_rate_update(local, sband, sta, changed); ··· 551 551 rcu_read_lock(); 552 552 sta = sta_info_get(sdata, addr); 553 553 if (sta) { 554 - mesh_sta_info_init(sdata, sta, elems, false); 554 + mesh_sta_info_init(sdata, sta, elems); 555 555 } else { 556 556 rcu_read_unlock(); 557 557 /* can't run atomic */ ··· 561 561 return NULL; 562 562 } 563 563 564 - mesh_sta_info_init(sdata, sta, elems, true); 564 + mesh_sta_info_init(sdata, sta, elems); 565 565 566 566 if (sta_info_insert_rcu(sta)) 567 567 return NULL;