2009-10-13 11:46:49

by Holger Schurig

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Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: remove warning in deauth case

It might be the case that __cfg80211_disconnected() has already
cleaned up wdev->current_bss() for us. The old code didn't catch
that situation and didn't warn needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <[email protected]>

---

For more info, see mail "cfg80211 / libertas: an unusual race"
in the linux-wireless mailing list.


--- linux-wl.orig/net/wireless/mlme.c
+++ linux-wl/net/wireless/mlme.c
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@
struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (struct ieee80211_mgmt *)buf;
const u8 *bssid = mgmt->bssid;
int i;
- bool done = false;

ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);

@@ -138,7 +137,6 @@

if (wdev->current_bss &&
memcmp(wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN) == 0) {
- done = true;
cfg80211_unhold_bss(wdev->current_bss);
cfg80211_put_bss(&wdev->current_bss->pub);
wdev->current_bss = NULL;
@@ -148,7 +146,6 @@
cfg80211_unhold_bss(wdev->auth_bsses[i]);
cfg80211_put_bss(&wdev->auth_bsses[i]->pub);
wdev->auth_bsses[i] = NULL;
- done = true;
break;
}
if (wdev->authtry_bsses[i] &&
@@ -156,13 +153,10 @@
cfg80211_unhold_bss(wdev->authtry_bsses[i]);
cfg80211_put_bss(&wdev->authtry_bsses[i]->pub);
wdev->authtry_bsses[i] = NULL;
- done = true;
break;
}
}

- WARN_ON(!done);
-
if (wdev->sme_state == CFG80211_SME_CONNECTED) {
u16 reason_code;
bool from_ap;

--
http://www.holgerschurig.de


2009-10-16 11:37:19

by Johannes Berg

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: remove warning in deauth case

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:45 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> It might be the case that __cfg80211_disconnected() has already
> cleaned up wdev->current_bss() for us. The old code didn't catch
> that situation and didn't warn needlessly.

Care to explain how that can happen?

> Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <[email protected]>
>
> ---
>
> For more info, see mail "cfg80211 / libertas: an unusual race"
> in the linux-wireless mailing list.

Oh ok, I suppose that explains it?

johannes


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