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authorAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>2014-01-29 17:53:43 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-02-04 21:58:16 +0100
commitfe94f3a4ffaa20c7470038c69ffc8e545ef5f90a (patch)
treea8056f9f9e74e30679bb4fc852dfe19bd680f51e /drivers/net/wireless
parentnet: rfkill: move poll work to power efficient workqueue (diff)
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cfg80211: fix channel configuration in IBSS join
When receiving an IBSS_JOINED event select the BSS object based on the {bssid, channel} couple rather than the bssid only. With the current approach if another cell having the same BSSID (but using a different channel) exists then cfg80211 picks up the wrong BSS object. The result is a mismatching channel configuration between cfg80211 and the driver, that can lead to any sort of problem. The issue can be triggered by having an IBSS sitting on given channel and then asking the driver to create a new cell using the same BSSID but with a different frequency. By passing the channel to cfg80211_get_bss() we can solve this ambiguity and retrieve/create the correct BSS object. All the users of cfg80211_ibss_joined() have been changed accordingly. Moreover WARN when cfg80211_ibss_joined() gets a NULL channel as argument and remove a bogus call of the same function in ath6kl (it does not make sense to call cfg80211_ibss_joined() with a zero BSSID on ibss-leave). Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi> Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> [minor code cleanup in ath6kl] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c4
5 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
index eba32f56850a..c2c6f4604958 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ void ath6kl_cfg80211_connect_event(struct ath6kl_vif *vif, u16 channel,
if (nw_type & ADHOC_NETWORK) {
ath6kl_dbg(ATH6KL_DBG_WLAN_CFG, "ad-hoc %s selected\n",
nw_type & ADHOC_CREATOR ? "creator" : "joiner");
- cfg80211_ibss_joined(vif->ndev, bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cfg80211_ibss_joined(vif->ndev, bssid, chan, GFP_KERNEL);
cfg80211_put_bss(ar->wiphy, bss);
return;
}
@@ -861,13 +861,9 @@ void ath6kl_cfg80211_disconnect_event(struct ath6kl_vif *vif, u8 reason,
}
if (vif->nw_type & ADHOC_NETWORK) {
- if (vif->wdev.iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) {
+ if (vif->wdev.iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
ath6kl_dbg(ATH6KL_DBG_WLAN_CFG,
"%s: ath6k not in ibss mode\n", __func__);
- return;
- }
- memset(bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN);
- cfg80211_ibss_joined(vif->ndev, bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
return;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
index 3d25c18340c5..1a80bf19cb89 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
@@ -4658,6 +4658,7 @@ brcmf_notify_connect_status(struct brcmf_if *ifp,
struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg = ifp->drvr->config;
struct net_device *ndev = ifp->ndev;
struct brcmf_cfg80211_profile *profile = &ifp->vif->profile;
+ struct ieee80211_channel *chan;
s32 err = 0;
if (ifp->vif->mode == WL_MODE_AP) {
@@ -4665,9 +4666,10 @@ brcmf_notify_connect_status(struct brcmf_if *ifp,
} else if (brcmf_is_linkup(e)) {
brcmf_dbg(CONN, "Linkup\n");
if (brcmf_is_ibssmode(ifp->vif)) {
+ chan = ieee80211_get_channel(cfg->wiphy, cfg->channel);
memcpy(profile->bssid, e->addr, ETH_ALEN);
wl_inform_ibss(cfg, ndev, e->addr);
- cfg80211_ibss_joined(ndev, e->addr, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cfg80211_ibss_joined(ndev, e->addr, chan, GFP_KERNEL);
clear_bit(BRCMF_VIF_STATUS_CONNECTING,
&ifp->vif->sme_state);
set_bit(BRCMF_VIF_STATUS_CONNECTED,
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
index 32f75007a825..2d72a6b4b93e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
@@ -1766,7 +1766,8 @@ static void lbs_join_post(struct lbs_private *priv,
memcpy(priv->wdev->ssid, params->ssid, params->ssid_len);
priv->wdev->ssid_len = params->ssid_len;
- cfg80211_ibss_joined(priv->dev, bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cfg80211_ibss_joined(priv->dev, bssid, params->chandef.chan,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
/* TODO: consider doing this at MACREG_INT_CODE_LINK_SENSED time */
priv->connect_status = LBS_CONNECTED;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index f4cf9c9d40ec..0948ebe8942e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -1882,7 +1882,8 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_join_ibss(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
params->privacy);
done:
if (!ret) {
- cfg80211_ibss_joined(priv->netdev, priv->cfg_bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cfg80211_ibss_joined(priv->netdev, priv->cfg_bssid,
+ params->chandef.chan, GFP_KERNEL);
dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
"info: joined/created adhoc network with bssid"
" %pM successfully\n", priv->cfg_bssid);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c
index 5028557aa18a..2e89a865a67d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c
@@ -2835,7 +2835,9 @@ static void rndis_wlan_do_link_up_work(struct usbnet *usbdev)
bssid, req_ie, req_ie_len,
resp_ie, resp_ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);
} else if (priv->infra_mode == NDIS_80211_INFRA_ADHOC)
- cfg80211_ibss_joined(usbdev->net, bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cfg80211_ibss_joined(usbdev->net, bssid,
+ get_current_channel(usbdev, NULL),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
kfree(info);