We check tid->sched without a lock taken on ath_tx_aggr_sleep(). That
is race condition which can result of doing list_del(&tid->list) twice
(second time with poisoned list node) and cause crash like shown below:
[424271.637220] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
00100104
[424271.637328] IP: [<
f90fc072>] ath_tx_aggr_sleep+0x62/0xe0 [ath9k]
...
[424271.639953] Call Trace:
[424271.639998] [<
f90f6900>] ? ath9k_get_survey+0x110/0x110 [ath9k]
[424271.640083] [<
f90f6942>] ath9k_sta_notify+0x42/0x50 [ath9k]
[424271.640177] [<
f809cfef>] sta_ps_start+0x8f/0x1c0 [mac80211]
[424271.640258] [<
c10f730e>] ? free_compound_page+0x2e/0x40
[424271.640346] [<
f809e915>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x9d5/0x2340 [mac80211]
[424271.640437] [<
c112f048>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1d8/0x1f0
[424271.640510] [<
c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90
[424271.640578] [<
c10fc23c>] ? put_page+0x2c/0x40
[424271.640640] [<
c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90
[424271.640706] [<
c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90
[424271.640787] [<
f809dde3>] ? ieee80211_rx_handlers_result+0x73/0x1d0 [mac80211]
[424271.640897] [<
f80a07a0>] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x520/0xad0 [mac80211]
[424271.641009] [<
f809e22d>] ? ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x2ed/0x2340 [mac80211]
[424271.641104] [<
c13846ce>] ? ip_output+0x7e/0xd0
[424271.641182] [<
f80a1057>] ieee80211_rx+0x307/0x7c0 [mac80211]
[424271.641266] [<
f90fa6ee>] ath_rx_tasklet+0x88e/0xf70 [ath9k]
[424271.641358] [<
f80a0f2c>] ? ieee80211_rx+0x1dc/0x7c0 [mac80211]
[424271.641445] [<
f90f82db>] ath9k_tasklet+0xcb/0x130 [ath9k]
Bug report:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
Reported-and-tested-by: Max Sydorenko <maxim.stargazer@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>