nl80211: Make nl80211_send_mlme_event() atomic
One of the code paths sending deauth/disassoc events ends up calling
this function with rcu_read_lock held, so we must use GFP_ATOMIC in
allocation routines.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 353e1a4..2456e4e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3334,7 +3334,7 @@
struct sk_buff *msg;
void *hdr;
- msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!msg)
return;
@@ -3353,7 +3353,7 @@
return;
}
- genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, GFP_KERNEL);
+ genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, GFP_ATOMIC);
return;
nla_put_failure: