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authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>2010-05-28 09:28:39 -0700
committerReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>2010-06-14 10:51:16 -0700
commitda5ae1cfff4cc5b9392eab59b227ad907626d7aa (patch)
tree67776b88a0f37dc2c0f2b839076279d1ecd78239 /drivers/net/wireless
parentb054b747a694927879c94dd11af54d04346aed7d (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c9
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 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;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
index 83a26361a9b5..c27c13fbb1ae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
@@ -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);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 6c353cacc8d6..a27872de4106 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -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;
}