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-agn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
index 7726e67..24aff65 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
@@ -3391,10 +3391,12 @@
int ret;
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;
atomic_set(&sta_priv->pending_frames, 0);
if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
@@ -3406,6 +3408,7 @@
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;
}
@@ -3415,6 +3418,7 @@
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "Initializing rate scaling for station %pM\n",
sta->addr);
iwl_rs_rate_init(priv, sta, sta_id);
+ mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
return 0;
}