From: Felix Fietkau Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:21:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix race in mesh sequence number assignment Since the sequence number is shared across different tx queues, it needs to be atomic in order to avoid accidental duplicate assignment Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau --- --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ struct ieee80211_if_mesh { struct mesh_stats mshstats; struct mesh_config mshcfg; atomic_t estab_plinks; - u32 mesh_seqnum; + atomic_t mesh_seqnum; bool accepting_plinks; int num_gates; struct beacon_data __rcu *beacon; --- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c @@ -752,10 +752,8 @@ unsigned int ieee80211_new_mesh_header(s meshhdr->ttl = sdata->u.mesh.mshcfg.dot11MeshTTL; - /* FIXME: racy -- TX on multiple queues can be concurrent */ - put_unaligned(cpu_to_le32(sdata->u.mesh.mesh_seqnum), &meshhdr->seqnum); - sdata->u.mesh.mesh_seqnum++; - + put_unaligned_le32(atomic_inc_return(&sdata->u.mesh.mesh_seqnum), + &meshhdr->seqnum); if (addr4or5 && !addr6) { meshhdr->flags |= MESH_FLAGS_AE_A4; memcpy(meshhdr->eaddr1, addr4or5, ETH_ALEN);