mac80211: fix notify_mac function
The ieee80211_notify_mac() function uses ieee80211_sta_req_auth() which
in turn calls ieee80211_set_disassoc() which calls a few functions that
need to be able to sleep, so ieee80211_notify_mac() cannot use RCU
locking for the interface list and must use rtnl locking instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 87665d7b..14d165f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2570,14 +2570,14 @@
switch (notif_type) {
case IEEE80211_NOTIFY_RE_ASSOC:
- rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
+ rtnl_lock();
+ list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
continue;
ieee80211_sta_req_auth(sdata, &sdata->u.sta);
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ rtnl_unlock();
break;
}
}