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/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 6c353ca..a27872d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -3437,10 +3437,13 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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;
}