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| author |   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2010-05-28 09:28:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2010-06-14 10:51:16 -0700 |
| commit | da5ae1cfff4cc5b9392eab59b227ad907626d7aa (patch) | |
| tree | 67776b88a0f37dc2c0f2b839076279d1ecd78239 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c | |
| parent | mac80211: fix deauth before assoc (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-da5ae1cfff4cc5b9392eab59b227ad907626d7aa.tar.xz linux-dev-da5ae1cfff4cc5b9392eab59b227ad907626d7aa.zip | |
iwlwifi: serialize station management actions
We are seeing some race conditions between incoming station management
requests (station add/remove) and the internal unassoc RXON command that
modifies station table. Modify these flows to require the mutex to be held
and thus serializing them.
This fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2207
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c index 7726e67044c0..24aff654fa9c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c @@ -3391,10 +3391,12 @@ static int iwlagn_mac_sta_add(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int ret; u8 sta_id; - sta_priv->common.sta_id = IWL_INVALID_STATION; - IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "received request to add station %pM\n", sta->addr); + mutex_lock(&priv->mutex); + IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "proceeding to add station %pM\n", + sta->addr); + sta_priv->common.sta_id = IWL_INVALID_STATION; atomic_set(&sta_priv->pending_frames, 0); if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) @@ -3406,6 +3408,7 @@ static int iwlagn_mac_sta_add(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, IWL_ERR(priv, "Unable to add station %pM (%d)\n", sta->addr, ret); /* Should we return success if return code is EEXIST ? */ + mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex); return ret; } @@ -3415,6 +3418,7 @@ static int iwlagn_mac_sta_add(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "Initializing rate scaling for station %pM\n", sta->addr); iwl_rs_rate_init(priv, sta, sta_id); + mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex); return 0; } |