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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2008-02-21 14:09:30 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-02-29 15:41:34 -0500
commit43ba7e958f2ca05e4e9171a15402288419289d71 (patch)
tree15b7a04a7db402dd286f83cc56c21b336189da09 /net/mac80211/cfg.c
parentd46e144b65bf053b25d134ec9f52a38e63e04bb4 (diff)
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mac80211: atomically check whether STA exists already
When a STA structure is added, it is often checked whether it already exists before adding it. This, however, isn't done atomically so there is a race condition that could lead to two STA structures being added with the same MAC address. This patch changes sta_info_add() to return an ERR_PTR in case of failure and adds the failure mode -EEXIST when the STA already exists. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/cfg.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/cfg.c11
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index a083cc78855e..b0c41a0cee79 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -562,13 +562,6 @@ static int ieee80211_add_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
if (!netif_running(dev))
return -ENETDOWN;
- /* XXX: get sta belonging to dev */
- sta = sta_info_get(local, mac);
- if (sta) {
- sta_info_put(sta);
- return -EEXIST;
- }
-
if (params->vlan) {
sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(params->vlan);
@@ -579,8 +572,8 @@ static int ieee80211_add_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
sta = sta_info_add(local, dev, mac, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!sta)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(sta))
+ return PTR_ERR(sta);
sta->dev = sdata->dev;
if (sdata->vif.type == IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_VLAN ||