linux/net
Sven Eckelmann 1181e1daac batman-adv: Make vis info stack traversal threadsafe
The batman-adv vis server has to a stack which stores all information
about packets which should be send later. This stack is protected
with a spinlock that is used to prevent concurrent write access to it.

The send_vis_packets function has to take all elements from the stack
and send them to other hosts over the primary interface. The send will
be initiated without the lock which protects the stack.

The implementation using list_for_each_entry_safe has the problem that
it stores the next element as "safe ptr" to allow the deletion of the
current element in the list. The list may be modified during the
unlock/lock pair in the loop body which may make the safe pointer
not pointing to correct next element.

It is safer to remove and use the first element from the stack until no
elements are available. This does not need reduntant information which
would have to be validated each time the lock was removed.

Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-30 10:32:08 +01:00
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appletalk
atm net: kill unused macros 2010-12-19 21:59:35 -08:00
ax25
batman-adv batman-adv: Make vis info stack traversal threadsafe 2011-01-30 10:32:08 +01:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
bridge Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
caif
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core pktgen: Remove unnecessary prefix from pr_<level> 2010-12-20 10:30:06 -08:00
dcb
dccp dccp: remove unused macros 2010-12-10 12:49:23 +01:00
decnet net: Abstract default MTU metric calculation behind an accessor. 2010-12-14 13:01:14 -08:00
dns_resolver
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econet Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
ethernet
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ipv4 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
ipv6 ipv6: remove duplicate neigh_ifdown 2010-12-18 22:01:17 -08:00
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irda
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key
l2tp
lapb
llc
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
netfilter
netlabel net: kill unused macros 2010-12-19 21:59:35 -08:00
netlink
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packet net: Use skb_checksum_start_offset() 2010-12-16 14:43:14 -08:00
phonet
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rose
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sched net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many 2010-12-16 14:04:44 -08:00
sctp Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
sunrpc
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unix
wanrouter
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xfrm Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
compat.c
Kconfig net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol 2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00
Makefile net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol 2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00
nonet.c
socket.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
sysctl_net.c
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