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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
index 83a2636..c27c13f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
@@ -1373,10 +1373,14 @@
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);