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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>
This commit is contained in:
Reinette Chatre 2010-05-28 09:28:39 -07:00
parent b054b747a6
commit da5ae1cfff
3 changed files with 17 additions and 4 deletions
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8
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
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@ -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;
}

4
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
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@ -1373,10 +1373,14 @@ int iwl_mac_sta_remove(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "received request to remove station %pM\n",
sta->addr);
mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "proceeding to remove station %pM\n",
sta->addr);
ret = iwl_remove_station(priv, sta_common->sta_id, sta->addr);
if (ret)
IWL_ERR(priv, "Error removing station %pM\n",
sta->addr);
mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwl_mac_sta_remove);

9
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
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@ -3437,10 +3437,13 @@ static int iwl3945_mac_sta_add(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
bool is_ap = vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION;
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;
ret = iwl_add_station_common(priv, sta->addr, is_ap, &sta->ht_cap,
&sta_id);
@ -3448,6 +3451,7 @@ static int iwl3945_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;
}
@ -3457,6 +3461,7 @@ static int iwl3945_mac_sta_add(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "Initializing rate scaling for station %pM\n",
sta->addr);
iwl3945_rs_rate_init(priv, sta, sta_id);
mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
return 0;
}