commit 84efbb84cf76238faf26facf481c8675859bfaeb
author Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Sat Jun 16 00:00:26 2012 +0200
committer Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Thu Jul 12 12:08:10 2012 +0200
tree 3cc01b479a4c2db70b1b9ed59e1451d93acb5769
parent 71bbc9943883cffaf5d7a7728a4e4c50b3ac44d3

cfg80211: use wireless_dev for interface management

In order to be able to create P2P Device wdevs, move
the virtual interface management over to wireless_dev
structures.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

net/wireless/nl80211.c

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 0dc3356..789d0c7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@
 {
 	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0];
 	struct vif_params params;
-	struct net_device *dev;
+	struct wireless_dev *wdev;
 	int err;
 	enum nl80211_iftype type = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED;
 	u32 flags;
@@ -2001,16 +2001,14 @@
 	err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ?
 				  info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL,
 				  &flags);
-	dev = rdev->ops->add_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy,
+	wdev = rdev->ops->add_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy,
 		nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]),
 		type, err ? NULL : &flags, &params);
-	if (IS_ERR(dev))
-		return PTR_ERR(dev);
+	if (IS_ERR(wdev))
+		return PTR_ERR(wdev);
 
 	if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT &&
 	    info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_ID]) {
-		struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
-
 		wdev_lock(wdev);
 		BUILD_BUG_ON(IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN !=
 			     IEEE80211_MAX_MESH_ID_LEN);
@@ -2027,12 +2025,22 @@
 static int nl80211_del_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 {
 	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0];
-	struct net_device *dev = info->user_ptr[1];
+	struct wireless_dev *wdev = info->user_ptr[1];
 
 	if (!rdev->ops->del_virtual_intf)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	return rdev->ops->del_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, dev);
+	/*
+	 * If we remove a wireless device without a netdev then clear
+	 * user_ptr[1] so that nl80211_post_doit won't dereference it
+	 * to check if it needs to do dev_put(). Otherwise it crashes
+	 * since the wdev has been freed, unlike with a netdev where
+	 * we need the dev_put() for the netdev to really be freed.
+	 */
+	if (!wdev->netdev)
+		info->user_ptr[1] = NULL;
+
+	return rdev->ops->del_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, wdev);
 }
 
 static int nl80211_set_noack_map(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
@@ -6874,7 +6882,7 @@
 		.doit = nl80211_del_interface,
 		.policy = nl80211_policy,
 		.flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
-		.internal_flags = NL80211_FLAG_NEED_NETDEV |
+		.internal_flags = NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV |
 				  NL80211_FLAG_NEED_RTNL,
 	},
 	{