Patch "batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
batman-adv-modify-neigh_list-only-with-rcu-list-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:22:58 +0200
Subject: batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions
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From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>

commit 9ca488dd53088d4fcc97258aeeccf21f63b7da1e upstream.

The batadv_hard_iface::neigh_list is accessed via rcu based primitives. Thus all operations done on it have to fulfill the requirements by RCU. So using non-RCU mechanisms like hlist_add_head is not allowed because it misses the barriers required to protect concurrent readers when accessing the data behind the pointer.

---
 net/batman-adv/originator.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ batadv_hardif_neigh_create(struct batadv
 	if (bat_priv->algo_ops->neigh.hardif_init)
 		bat_priv->algo_ops->neigh.hardif_init(hardif_neigh);
 
-	hlist_add_head(&hardif_neigh->list, &hard_iface->neigh_list);
+	hlist_add_head_rcu(&hardif_neigh->list, &hard_iface->neigh_list);
 
 out:
 	spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->neigh_list_lock);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/batman-adv-modify-neigh_list-only-with-rcu-list-functions.patch