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authorMichael Buesch2006-09-27 15:26:33 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville2006-10-16 20:09:47 -0400
commit7c28ad2d83ecc637237fe684659a6afbce0bb2a8 (patch)
tree4bdbe26516d2d8aa195f97eae9cd120d47521ab6 /include/net
parent3693ec670b3bb4d11295856bea3592dd8f37f9a5 (diff)
[PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related races
This fixes some race conditions in the WirelessExtension handling and association handling code. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/ieee80211softmac.h35
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h b/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h
index 425b3a57ac74..617b672b1132 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h
@@ -63,13 +63,11 @@ struct ieee80211softmac_wpa {
/*
* Information about association
- *
- * Do we need a lock for this?
- * We only ever use this structure inlined
- * into our global struct. I've used its lock,
- * but maybe we need a local one here?
*/
struct ieee80211softmac_assoc_info {
+
+ struct mutex mutex;
+
/*
* This is the requested ESSID. It is written
* only by the WX handlers.
@@ -99,12 +97,13 @@ struct ieee80211softmac_assoc_info {
*
* bssfixed is used for SIOCSIWAP.
*/
- u8 static_essid:1,
- short_preamble_available:1,
- associating:1,
- assoc_wait:1,
- bssvalid:1,
- bssfixed:1;
+ u8 static_essid;
+ u8 short_preamble_available;
+ u8 associating;
+ u8 associated;
+ u8 assoc_wait;
+ u8 bssvalid;
+ u8 bssfixed;
/* Scan retries remaining */
int scan_retry;
@@ -229,12 +228,10 @@ struct ieee80211softmac_device {
/* private stuff follows */
/* this lock protects this structure */
spinlock_t lock;
-
- /* couple of flags */
- u8 scanning:1, /* protects scanning from being done multiple times at once */
- associated:1,
- running:1;
-
+
+ u8 running; /* SoftMAC started? */
+ u8 scanning;
+
struct ieee80211softmac_scaninfo *scaninfo;
struct ieee80211softmac_assoc_info associnfo;
struct ieee80211softmac_bss_info bssinfo;
@@ -250,7 +247,7 @@ struct ieee80211softmac_device {
/* we need to keep a list of network structs we copied */
struct list_head network_list;
-
+
/* This must be the last item so that it points to the data
* allocated beyond this structure by alloc_ieee80211 */
u8 priv[0];
@@ -295,7 +292,7 @@ static inline u8 ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate(struct ieee80211softmac_device
{
struct ieee80211softmac_txrates *txrates = &mac->txrates;
- if (!mac->associated)
+ if (!mac->associnfo.associated)
return txrates->mgt_mcast_rate;
/* We are associated, sending unicast frame */