mac80211: fix TX a-MPDU locking

During my quest to make mac80211 not have any RCU
warnings from sparse, I came across the a-MPDU code
again and it wasn't quite clear why it isn't racy.
So instead of assigning the tid_tx array with just
the spinlock held in ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session
use a separate temporary array protected only by
the spinlock and protect all assignments to the
"live" array by both the spinlock and the mutex so
that other code is easily verified to be correct.

Due to pointer assignment atomicity I don't think
this is a real issue, but I'm not sure, especially
on Alpha the current code might be problematic.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
index 63d852c..f614ee6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ void ieee80211_send_bar(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *ra, u16 tid, u1
 	ieee80211_tx_skb(sdata, skb);
 }
 
+void ieee80211_assign_tid_tx(struct sta_info *sta, int tid,
+			     struct tid_ampdu_tx *tid_tx)
+{
+	lockdep_assert_held(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx);
+	lockdep_assert_held(&sta->lock);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid], tid_tx);
+}
+
 static void kfree_tid_tx(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
 {
 	struct tid_ampdu_tx *tid_tx =
@@ -161,7 +169,7 @@ int ___ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(struct sta_info *sta, u16 tid,
 
 	if (test_bit(HT_AGG_STATE_WANT_START, &tid_tx->state)) {
 		/* not even started yet! */
-		rcu_assign_pointer(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid], NULL);
+		ieee80211_assign_tid_tx(sta, tid, NULL);
 		spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
 		call_rcu(&tid_tx->rcu_head, kfree_tid_tx);
 		return 0;
@@ -318,7 +326,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_ba_session_handle_start(struct sta_info *sta, int tid)
 					" tid %d\n", tid);
 #endif
 		spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
-		rcu_assign_pointer(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid], NULL);
+		ieee80211_assign_tid_tx(sta, tid, NULL);
 		spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
 
 		ieee80211_wake_queue_agg(local, tid);
@@ -398,7 +406,7 @@ int ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u16 tid,
 
 	tid_tx = sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid];
 	/* check if the TID is not in aggregation flow already */
-	if (tid_tx) {
+	if (tid_tx || sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_start_tx[tid]) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
 		printk(KERN_DEBUG "BA request denied - session is not "
 				 "idle on tid %u\n", tid);
@@ -433,8 +441,11 @@ int ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u16 tid,
 	sta->ampdu_mlme.dialog_token_allocator++;
 	tid_tx->dialog_token = sta->ampdu_mlme.dialog_token_allocator;
 
-	/* finally, assign it to the array */
-	rcu_assign_pointer(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid], tid_tx);
+	/*
+	 * Finally, assign it to the start array; the work item will
+	 * collect it and move it to the normal array.
+	 */
+	sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_start_tx[tid] = tid_tx;
 
 	ieee80211_queue_work(&local->hw, &sta->ampdu_mlme.work);
 
@@ -697,7 +708,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, u8 *ra, u8 tid)
 	ieee80211_agg_splice_packets(local, tid_tx, tid);
 
 	/* future packets must not find the tid_tx struct any more */
-	rcu_assign_pointer(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid], NULL);
+	ieee80211_assign_tid_tx(sta, tid, NULL);
 
 	ieee80211_agg_splice_finish(local, tid);