mac80211: update mesh beacon on workqueue
Instead of updating the mesh beacon immediately when
requested (which would require the sdata_lock()), defer it
to the mac80211 workqueue.
Fixes yet another deadlock on calling sta_info_flush()
with the sdata_lock() held from ieee80211_stop_mesh(). We
could just drop the sdata_lock() around the
mesh_sta_cleanup() call, but this path is also taken from
several non-locked error paths.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
[fix comment position]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index a4dfb0b..194be3d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@
struct timer_list mesh_path_root_timer;
unsigned long wrkq_flags;
+ unsigned long mbss_changed;
u8 mesh_id[IEEE80211_MAX_MESH_ID_LEN];
size_t mesh_id_len;