Patch "mac80211: properly deal with station hashtable insert errors" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

mac80211: properly deal with station hashtable insert errors

to the 4.4-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:
mac80211-properly-deal-with-station-hashtable-insert-errors.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:22:45 +0200
Subject: mac80211: properly deal with station hashtable insert errors

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

commit 62b14b241ca6f790a17ccd9dd9f62ce1b006d406 upstream.

The original hand-implemented hash-table in mac80211 couldn't result in insertion errors, and while converting to rhashtable I evidently forgot to check the errors.

This surfaced now only because Ben is adding many identical keys and that resulted in hidden insertion errors.

---
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -256,11 +256,11 @@ void sta_info_free(struct ieee80211_loca
 }
 
 /* Caller must hold local->sta_mtx */
-static void sta_info_hash_add(struct ieee80211_local *local,
-			      struct sta_info *sta)
+static int sta_info_hash_add(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+			     struct sta_info *sta)
 {
-	rhashtable_insert_fast(&local->sta_hash, &sta->hash_node,
-			       sta_rht_params);
+	return rhashtable_insert_fast(&local->sta_hash, &sta->hash_node,
+				      sta_rht_params);
 }
 
 static void sta_deliver_ps_frames(struct work_struct *wk)

@@ -503,7 +503,9 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct
 	set_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA);
 
 	/* make the station visible */
-	sta_info_hash_add(local, sta);
+	err = sta_info_hash_add(local, sta);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_drop_sta;
 
 	list_add_tail_rcu(&sta->list, &local->sta_list);
 

@@ -538,6 +540,7 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct
  out_remove:
 	sta_info_hash_del(local, sta);
 	list_del_rcu(&sta->list);
+ out_drop_sta:
 	local->num_sta--;
 	synchronize_net();
 	__cleanup_single_sta(sta);

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

queue-4.4/mac80211-fix-unnecessary-frame-drops-in-mesh-fwding.patch queue-4.4/mac80211-avoid-excessive-stack-usage-in-sta_info.patch queue-4.4/mac80211-fix-ibss-scan-parameters.patch queue-4.4/mac80211-properly-deal-with-station-hashtable-insert-errors.patch queue-4.4/mac80211-fix-txq-queue-related-crashes.patch