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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2008-02-25 16:27:46 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-03-06 15:30:46 -0500 |
| commit | d0709a65181beb787ef3f58cfe45536a2bb254c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 29e5f36583b0e0a3f11b291347e57672eab41dad /net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c | |
| parent | 5cf121c3cdb955583bf0c5d28c992b7968a4aa1a (diff) | |
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mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access
This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect
against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the
copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it
is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is
now somewhat understandable.
This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction
by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under
RTNL and frees the key.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c index ed7c9f3b4602..73cfb4da464d 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c +++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static const struct file_operations sta_ ##name## _ops = { \ STA_OPS(name) STA_FILE(aid, aid, D); -STA_FILE(dev, dev->name, S); +STA_FILE(dev, sdata->dev->name, S); STA_FILE(rx_packets, rx_packets, LU); STA_FILE(tx_packets, tx_packets, LU); STA_FILE(rx_bytes, rx_bytes, LU); @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static ssize_t sta_agg_status_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { struct sta_info *sta = file->private_data; - struct net_device *dev = sta->dev; + struct net_device *dev = sta->sdata->dev; struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr); struct ieee80211_hw *hw = &local->hw; u8 *da = sta->addr; |